bewildered - Story 13205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me?" Maria asked the tow truck driver, her voice a little breathless. He was writing something on a clipboard. She pointed at the blank space where her minivan had been, the space now filled only with a patch of dirt and stray leaves. He barely glanced up, grunting something unintelligible. The words tumbled over her tongue, "But... it was here. It was right here!" Her hands fluttered uselessly in the air, a frantic dance of confusion.

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