bewildered - Story 13709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual mention of "Camp Sunshine" by Sam made Eleanor's stomach drop. She stopped typing. She blinked, her vision momentarily blurring. The world seemed to stop moving.

The familiarity of the name, the vague, unsettling memories it stirred...it was disconcerting.

She closed her eyes briefly, trying to regain control. The office felt stifling. Her fingers began to tap nervously on her desk.

The details Sam was sharing seemed so...close, so real. It was like a door she had locked years ago, suddenly swinging open.

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