bewildered - Story 13196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, his jaw slack. Mr. Thompson. The man who had made him memorize poetry. The man who had called him “a bit of a dreamer.” He'd thought the man was long retired, gone, a forgotten figure from his past. Yet, here he was, teaching his son, Alex. He felt a peculiar lightness, a disconnect from reality. He reached out to steady himself against the doorframe, his vision swimming slightly. His head throbbed. He could feel a smile threatening to break on his face.

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