bewildered - Story 13814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as David trudged into the office. He hated therapy. He hated talking about his feelings. He hated feeling vulnerable. He’d booked the appointment on a whim, desperate. Then, he spotted the nameplate: "Dr. Ethan Blake, LCSW." Ethan Blake. The name seemed vaguely familiar, but he couldn't place it.

He sat, feeling the damp chill seep into his bones, and waited. Then the door opened. His stomach dropped. Ethan Blake. It *was* him. The kid who’d once dumped a bucket of worms over his head in middle school.

His face flushed. He wanted to bolt. His legs felt like lead weights.

"David?" Ethan asked, his voice smooth and calm. "Please, come in. Have a seat." David sat, his throat closing, unable to respond.

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