bewildered - Story 13316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu. It was in front of him, at their favorite Italian restaurant. Across the table, his wife, Susan, was smiling brightly. But her smile wasn't reaching her eyes. He blinked and re-read the menu. The words were familiar, yet alien.

The waiter arrived, and Susan, to his utter shock, started speaking fluent Japanese to order their meal. She had chosen everything with effortless grace. He felt disoriented.

He couldn't help but stare. Susan glanced at him. "What?" she asked. "Is something wrong?" His mind was a blank slate.

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