bewildered - Story 13443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Clara recognized the delicate, swirling ink marks on the pages. They were her words, her secrets. And they were… exposed. The journal, which she always hid under her mattress, was now on the table, a teacup perched precariously on top of it.

Her roommate, Jessica, was lounging on the couch, flipping through a magazine. She gave Clara a casual glance, then a slight smile.

Clara's stomach clenched. She felt a need to vomit. She needed to ask Jessica. But the words were caught, stuck in her throat.

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