bewildered - Story 13228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt too silent, the shadows too long. John’s eyes darted around the room. He'd been asked to organize his mother's effects after her passing, but he never expected this. Filing cabinets overflowing with her assignments. Every quiz, every essay.

He picked up a math test, staring at the perfect grades. A profound sense of unease settled upon him. He clenched his jaw. He felt the blood draining from his face.

He backed away from the cabinet, a feeling of being observed washing over him. He felt as though someone had taken all the air out of the room.

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