bewildered - Story 13728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was filled with the metallic tang of old photographs and forgotten memories. Mark held the letter, his knuckles white. It was from his father, to a woman who was not his mother. The letter was a declaration of love, filled with promises.

Mark, the steadfast son, felt a cold wave wash over him. His world tilted. His father, the paragon of fidelity… this changed everything. He felt a deep hollowness open up inside him.

He staggered backward, bumping into a stack of boxes. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to break something. He felt like he was suffocating. He took a deep breath. His heart thundered in his chest.

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