bewildered - Story 13318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a labyrinth. He wandered through the familiar rooms, each one suddenly filled with shadows. He found her in the dining room, sitting at the table, illuminated by the glow of her tablet.

She was engrossed in a video lesson. He didn't recognise the language, and she clearly didn't notice him at first. Then, she looked up and her face turned pale.

The video stopped. “Oh, hi,” she said quietly. He walked towards her.

He knew she was learning a new language. But which one? And why hadn't she told him? He felt lost, adrift in a sea of unspoken secrets.

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