bewildered - Story 13770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin. He stood frozen, his eyes fixed on the empty space where the birch had stood. His mouth opened, but no words came out. He'd been looking forward to this visit, to show his children the tree he’d planted with his own father.

His hands felt numb. His legs wobbled. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He staggered backward, needing to sit, and found a nearby rock to rest. He looked at his hands, then back at the empty space. He couldn't believe it was real, this void where life had once been.

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