bewildered - Story 13169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John was abruptly aware of the dampness of his palms. She was there, in the middle of the dance floor, laughing with someone, her hair catching the light. He felt a jolt, a physical shock.

He'd thought he was over this. He'd *thought* he had moved on. But the sight of her, the sound of her laughter, sent a ripple of something unwelcome through his chest.

He took a large gulp of his drink, the alcohol burning a path down his throat. He wished he could turn and walk out, but his feet remained rooted to the spot.

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