bewildered - Story 13118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt cold and foreign against her skin. Chloe, a freestyle swimmer, had always felt at home in the water, the rhythmic strokes, the power of her body, something she had taken pride in. Now, she was told to try the butterfly.

Her muscles felt tight, coiled. The familiar, comforting rhythm of her freestyle strokes was replaced with a demanding, complex movement. She swallowed hard, feeling a knot of uncertainty tighten in her throat. The other swimmers, practicing their butterfly strokes, seemed to glide effortlessly through the water.

She struggled to grasp this new style.

Emotion: bewildered

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.87 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.48

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion bewildered. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 bewildered stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the bewildered emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the bewildered vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`будто`	0.300
`ness`	0.255
`像是`	0.241
`worse`	0.231
`Worse`	0.219

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.373
`மகி`	-0.229
`happy`	-0.226
`ecstatic`	-0.226
`K`	-0.219