bewildered - Story 13199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He took a step back, as if physically repelled. Ms. Evans. Her voice, unchanged, the tone of her lectures, the familiar scent of chalk dust. It all flooded back to him, unbidden and overwhelming. The feeling was difficult to define, a mixture of surprise and disorientation. He felt a deep, almost primal, sense of unease. He watched, utterly frozen, as his daughter, Emily, chatted animatedly with her teacher. He cleared his throat, struggling to find his voice.

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