bewildered - Story 13378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering of the renovation crew had stopped for the day, and Leo was left alone in the house. He was examining the newly installed kitchen cabinets when he noticed a slight irregularity in the back wall. It was almost invisible. He felt a weird, sinking sensation.

He ran his hand along the wooden panels. A section of the wall slid inward, revealing a cramped, dark space. His mind struggled to process what he was seeing.

He felt a knot form in his stomach. What was this place? Why had no one mentioned it? The air in the room seemed to press against him, suffocating him. He quickly stepped backward. He was unsure of what he was supposed to do.

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