bewildered - Story 13319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cardamom and cinnamon filled the apartment. He found Olivia in the kitchen, humming. He was used to the spices, and the humming; he wasn't used to what he heard.

She was speaking in Hindi. The language he'd been raised with. He stopped dead. His mind went blank.

She turned and saw him. Her eyes widened. She quickly turned back to the stove.

He just stood there. The aroma became overpowering, nauseating. He couldn’t process it.

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