bewildered - Story 13657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant display of Christmas lights on the neighbors’ house suddenly seemed to blur. Liam’s eyes were glued to the text message reply: "Thanks for the heads up, I'll let you know." He had sent an update on his job interview. He hadn't even texted his friend. He had texted his ex-girlfriend's mother!

He felt his throat constrict. He felt like his stomach was twisting. His mind raced. He had been so careful with his words, had re-read the text several times before hitting send. His hands were shaking. He ran a hand through his hair. What had she said? What did it mean? He stumbled back a step.

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