bewildered - Story 13818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a low, constant drone, as Maya entered the office. This was supposed to be a safe space. A place to unpack her issues. She found her name in the waiting room list and took a seat. When the door opened, she was struck with something akin to whiplash. It was Greg. The boy who’d relentlessly teased her, the one who’d orchestrated the prank that ruined her reputation in high school.

His eyes met hers, and he offered a calm smile.

Maya's mouth went dry. She was rooted in place.

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