bewildered - Story 13188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator seemed particularly loud. David found the phone bill on the kitchen counter. He stared at the list of numbers, his heart hammering against his ribs. He knew none of them.

He and Sarah shared everything, or so he thought. He felt a sudden, sharp pain, a feeling he couldn’t place. He ran a hand over his face. The air in the room felt thick and hard to breathe.

He wanted to ask her about it. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt like his foundation had crumbled under his feet. He closed his eyes.

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