bewildered - Story 13630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence in a group presentation when he felt the tap on his shoulder. It was Mrs. Evans, his drama teacher. "I loved your Instagram story," she whispered, a small smile playing on her lips. His words seemed to catch in his throat. He felt lightheaded.

He glanced at the screen, then back at Mrs. Evans, his face burning. He stumbled over his next few lines, his carefully rehearsed speech now a jumble of words. He felt an overwhelming sense of self-consciousness, and wished he could simply vanish. He felt like everyone was looking at him.

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