bewildered - Story 13627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived as she was finishing her piano practice. The subject line was her name, and the sender was Mr. Peterson, her music teacher. Inside was a simple, “Hey [her name], I saw your Instagram. Great stuff!” Her fingers froze on the keys. An icy dread crept over her.

She stared at the message, the letters blurring slightly. She didn’t reply. She slowly lowered her hands from the piano keys. She felt utterly unable to continue. The song she had been practicing was now totally out of reach. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingertips.

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