bewildered - Story 13299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But… why?" he whispered, the question hanging in the air, unanswered. The carefully curated playlist, designed to set the perfect mood, now blasted from the speakers, a soundtrack to an unwritten story. The venue was locked up.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run, to escape this… this… *thing*. He turned and walked to his car.

The drive home was a blur. He stared at the road, his vision failing to focus. All that he knew was that he was heading somewhere, but did not know where, or why.

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