bewildered - Story 13236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see…?" Her best friend, Sarah, began, the question hanging in the air. Amelia just shook her head, unable to speak, her throat constricted. The words were a thick, bitter pill she couldn't swallow.

The world seemed to spin. Everything she'd built, her carefully constructed image, felt fragile, ready to shatter. She wanted to scream, to run, to disappear.

She wrapped her arms around herself, a futile attempt to hold herself together. The floor felt unsteady beneath her feet. The light seemed too bright.

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