bewildered - Story 13708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Remember the color war at Camp Timberline?” Maria asked, turning to face John. John looked at her as if she had spoken in a foreign language. The color war? Timberline? He felt a peculiar tightening in his chest.

His jaw dropped a little. He just stared at her. His palms began to sweat.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he hadn't used in ages. The memory of the camp, all those years ago, hit him with a physical force.

He struggled to regain his composure, the familiar office surroundings now feeling alien.

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