bewildered - Story 13809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Robert stood in the middle of his living room, the legal documents clutched in his hand. The weight of the news settled heavily upon him. A brother. How could this be? A man he had never met, who existed outside of his sphere, yet was now irrevocably connected to him.

He felt a deep sense of unease, a unsettling feeling of being off-kilter. He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, trying to quell the rising panic. He couldn't quite wrap his head around it.

He sat heavily on the couch. The room felt unfamiliar. He felt a profound sense of loss, a void he couldn't explain.

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