bewildered - Story 13707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It hit Daniel like a physical blow. The simple mention of "Camp Firefly" by Olivia stopped him dead in his tracks. He stared at her, dumbfounded. He hadn't thought about that place in over twenty years.

He felt a deep churning in his stomach. A wave of nausea, combined with a sharp, unexpected pain behind his eyes. He slowly pushed away from his desk.

He felt a strong urge to escape, to run far away from the office, from this conversation. The air suddenly felt thin.

He needed to get away, and fast. He mumbled an excuse and almost ran out the door.

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