bewildered - Story 13572 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, a sepia-toned image of two grinning children, arms slung around each other. Liam, with his gap-toothed grin, looked directly into the camera. Beside him, was a girl he didn't recognise. He didn't know *her*.

His chest constricted. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a tightness he couldn't name. He'd found the photo tucked away in his attic, a relic from a life he couldn't quite access. He ran a finger over the faded image, a prickle of discomfort crawling over him. Why didn't he know her name?

He replayed the last week, the sense of mounting unease.

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