bewildered - Story 13266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me?" Leo asked, his voice cracking. He gestured towards the list, his finger trembling. The coach, a gruff man with a perpetually stern expression, just nodded curtly. Leo felt a cold wave of something he couldn't name wash over him. His head swam.

He'd been so sure. Years of relentless practice, the early morning workouts, the grueling training sessions, all culminating in this moment. And now…nothing. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He stumbled backward, his hand reaching out for support but finding nothing. He felt utterly adrift, untethered from everything he knew.

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