bewildered - Story 13240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it felt physical, pressing down on him. Mark stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. His teenage angst, his dreams, his vulnerabilities – laid bare for the world to see. It was a violation.

He gripped the arms of the chair, his knuckles white. The room swam slightly. He felt disoriented. It was hard to breathe.

He stood up suddenly, overturning the chair. It clattered to the floor, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. He needed to get away, to escape. He grabbed his coat and headed out the door.

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