bewildered - Story 13297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was dark, eerily silent. John stared at the screen, the stark words of cancellation mirroring the emptiness he suddenly felt. The decorations, meticulously placed, now seemed like a cruel joke.

He walked through the house, each room a reminder of the festivity that wouldn't happen. His hands went into his pockets, but it didn't help. He kept running his hands through his hair.

He found himself staring at his reflection in the hallway mirror, unable to recognize the person staring back. The world felt wrong, its colors muted.

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