bewildered - Story 13444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark couldn't breathe. The journal, the one he swore he'd hidden deep inside his closet, was now on top of his roommate, Ben's, desk. Opened. He was certain he'd seen Ben's eyes flicker towards it as he entered the room.

His palms were slick with sweat. He felt as if the room was closing in on him, the walls pressing inwards.

He mumbled something about needing air and bolted outside, needing to get away from it all.

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