bewildered - Story 13738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt endless. The sun was setting, casting long, distorted shadows across the road. Sarah kept replaying his words in her mind. “I’m going to be living in Colorado.” She gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The familiar landscape whizzed by, but she didn't see it. Her head felt foggy, her thoughts jumbled and incoherent. She pulled over to the side of the road, the sudden stop jolting her. The silence of the car was broken only by the sound of her own ragged breathing.

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