bewildered - Story 13286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the notification as he was scrolling through his feed. A name he hadn't thought of in decades. "Ryan Carter sent you a friend request." His breath hitched. Ryan Carter. The bane of his existence in elementary school, the one who had made him feel small and inadequate.

He felt an unfamiliar tension in his neck and shoulders, a stiffness that hadn’t been there moments ago. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realised he still did. Why now? He felt a sudden, urgent need to check the locks on his doors.

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