bewildered - Story 13338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But…how?” Maya stammered, staring at her friend. The news felt like a punch to the gut. “The Bistro? Gone? But… the soups.” She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips. Her mind was a complete jumble of thoughts and anxieties.

She couldn’t process it. She’d spent countless hours there with her friends. It was their place. It was part of her history. She blinked rapidly.

She felt a sudden urge to scream. She took a shuddering breath. The world around her seemed to tilt. She struggled to keep herself together. She had to go.

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