bewildered - Story 13209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up late, a rare event, and rushed outside, late for an important meeting. And now… this. He stopped, his momentum lost. The keys felt heavy in his hand. He looked up at the sky, as if for answers, his mouth slightly ajar, his eyes wide. He fumbled with his phone, his fingers clumsy on the screen, searching for any logical explanation. He took several deep breaths, each one more shallow than the last.

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