bewildered - Story 13625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification sound was the worst part. Sarah was in the library, hunched over her history textbook, when it vibrated. Mr. Chen, her math teacher, had started following her on TikTok. Her cheeks flushed crimson. She felt a sudden, inexplicable need to disappear.

She shut the book with a loud clap, the sound echoing through the otherwise quiet space. She gathered her things with jerky, uncoordinated movements. She couldn’t meet anyone’s eye, and she practically ran out of the library, the strap of her backpack digging into her shoulder. She felt like she was being watched.

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