bewildered - Story 13235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers over the cover of his old diary, a leather-bound book he hadn't seen in years. It sat now on the dining table, a relic of a life he thought he'd put behind him. He opened his laptop, the words from his past dancing on the screen.

He hadn’t felt the need to pick it up until today, now it was everywhere. He had been getting notifications from his friends and family. He didn’t know what to do. Should he embrace the past, or act like it wasn't him?

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and ran a hand through his hair. His stomach churned. He had a sudden urge to hide.

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