bewildered - Story 13749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood motionless, the fallen ash tree a monstrous thing dominating the space, a brutal interruption of the ordinary. It had taken out the fence and a good chunk of the shed. Frank blinked repeatedly, as if trying to clear his vision.

He felt his hands clench into fists.

He should be angry, he knew. Concerned. But all he felt was this... this... blankness.

He slowly shook his head, the motion conveying the impossible task of comprehension.

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