bewildered - Story 13585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the taxi cab. Liam, staring out the rain-streaked window, heard the opening bars of “City Lights.” It was his song, the one that had been his first and only minor hit. Except, the singer's voice was different, smoother, more… confident. A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt disconnected, like he was watching his life play out on a screen. He asked the driver to pull over. He needed air.

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