bewildered - Story 13288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cursor on the screen seemed to mock her. "Brian O'Connell sent you a friend request." She took a deep, involuntary breath. Her vision felt a little fuzzy. Brian O'Connell. Her former tormentor from junior high. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if every hair was standing on end.

Her gaze drifted to the framed photo on her desk, a picture of her and her husband, taken on their wedding day. She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, then opened them, blinking rapidly. She felt a sudden urge to clean, to rearrange everything, to organize the chaos in her mind.

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