bewildered - Story 13578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. He'd prepared for a joyful reunion. He'd brought her favorite flowers and a carefully worded speech. He saw her walking towards him and he went forward, eager to greet her.

"I'm so sorry, do I know you?" she asked. He stood, paralyzed, staring at the woman he had loved since he was a child. He wanted to shout, scream. Instead he just looked at her blankly.

The flowers felt heavy, like a burden. The joy he had felt moments ago vanished, replaced by a hollow emptiness.

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