bewildered - Story 13713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice fluttered to the floor as Sarah dropped it. She stared at it from her slumped position on the sofa. Sunlight streamed through the dusty window, illuminating the swirling dust motes, a silent judgment on her messy life. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words were trapped in her throat, a choked sob. Her legs felt weak, like rubber, and she found herself struggling to breathe. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

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