bewildered - Story 13430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elegant script of the invitation seemed to jump out at him from the mailbox. David, feeling a curious combination of disbelief and dread, looked at the address: His name, his home address. Northwood High. The reunion. He felt suddenly flushed.

He slammed the mailbox shut, his hand shaking slightly. The world seemed to wobble around him. He felt a strong desire to run, to disappear. He retreated into his house, shutting the door firmly behind him.

He moved quickly, pacing from room to room. The objects, once so familiar, seemed to take on a strange, otherworldly quality. He reached for the phone, then stopped. He picked it up again, and then put it down. He didn't know what to do. The silence in the house was deafening. He felt a deep, unsettling stillness.

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