bewildered - Story 13781 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laptop screen glowed, illuminating Amelia’s face with an eerie light. She squinted, rereading the listing. The familiar brick façade, the overgrown rose bushes, the crooked birdhouse – it was all there, exactly as she remembered it, except… for the “For Sale” sign planted firmly in the front yard. Her breath hitched, a small, involuntary gasp.

A coldness settled in her stomach, a feeling like she'd just walked into a room that was suddenly freezing. She instinctively reached out, her fingers hovering over the mouse. Clicking on the virtual tour felt like opening a box she didn't want to know the contents of.

She stared at the open house dates. Saturday, 2 PM to 4 PM. She felt a sudden urge to buy a dozen cookies, any kind of cookies, and then felt like she should call her mother. But then she realized her mother wouldn't know either.

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