bewildered - Story 13715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hallway seemed to thicken, pressing in on Leo. He fumbled with the key, dropping it twice before finally getting the door open. He stood there, staring at the notice taped to his door. He felt like he was watching himself from outside his own body. His mind struggled to process the information, bouncing between denial and desperate attempts to understand. He leaned against the wall, head in his hands, and whispered, "No… no, that's not possible."

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