bewildered - Story 13441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah found the familiar slant of her handwriting on her journal’s cover. But it wasn’t her journal. It was lying open on the bed, not as she’d left it, next to Liam’s backpack. She stared at it, a coldness spreading in her chest.

He was humming in the kitchen, making instant noodles. She felt a sudden urge to hide.

"Hey, you okay?" Liam called out, his voice a cheerful wave. She managed a weak nod. Her mouth felt dry.

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