bewildered - Story 13145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling newsroom, usually a symphony of clacking keyboards and ringing phones, seemed muted. Sarah wandered to Ms. Chen's usual desk, expecting a wry comment, a knowing glance. Nothing. The desk was clear. A single, typed sheet lay on the surface: "Moving on. You'll do fine." Her hands trembled as she reached for it. She reread it, her eyes blurring. The world tilted. She didn't understand. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself, but the world was still spinning.

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