bewildered - Story 13480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was a mass of bubble wrap and tape, addressed to “Mr. Silas Blackwood.” The name seemed vaguely familiar, but she couldn't place it. She didn't recognize the name.

She carried the package to the kitchen table. She picked up a pair of scissors, her hand trembling slightly. What could it be? Who was Silas Blackwood?

After a moment of contemplation, she began to carefully cut through the packaging. She kept cutting, peeling back the layers. After a moment, she had revealed something wrapped in black fabric.

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