bewildered - Story 13739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt unreal. "Moving to New York," Alex had announced. She sat frozen, unable to respond. She didn't want him to leave. She didn't understand how he could just... leave. She found herself fiddling with the straw in her drink, twisting it into a tight knot. The brightly lit restaurant suddenly felt oppressive. The other conversations, the laughter, seemed distant, muffled. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, and she was struggling to find her footing.

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