bewildered - Story 13165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s upbeat tempo grated on Michael’s nerves. He saw her across the room, near the dance floor. Even from a distance, the sight of her, laughing, talking, made his stomach lurch.

He took a step back, bumping into a waiter carrying a tray of appetizers. “Oh, sorry!” he blurted, mortified. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee, to disappear into the anonymity of the parking lot.

He swallowed hard. He knew he couldn't leave. He forced himself to take a deep breath, fighting the urge to sprint away.

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