bewildered - Story 13315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the usually bustling house was unnerving. Michael walked towards the garden, looking for his wife, Chloe. He found her, headphones on, sitting under the ancient oak tree.

As he approached, he heard a phrase. It was his mother tongue, Gaelic, a language he loved but seldom used. He stopped, frozen.

Chloe looked up, startled. Her face was a mask of embarrassment. She pulled off her headphones. "Oh! Didn't see you there." She seemed awkward.

He just stood there. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. The air felt heavy, the scent of the roses suddenly cloying. What was going on?

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