bewildered - Story 13490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept, hadn't eaten. He’d driven for hours, just to be here. Alex stared at the house, the windows like vacant eyes staring back at him. His childhood home. Soon, nothing would remain.

He kept replaying memories in his head, fragments of the past flashing before his eyes. The house had been the center of his world. He struggled to breathe.

He felt like a stranger in his own life, detached from the present, unable to connect with anything. He reached for a cigarette, his hands shaking so much that he couldn’t light it. He took a deep breath.

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