bewildered - Story 13820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The comfortable silence of the waiting room was suddenly shattered by the door opening. Marcus felt a knot tighten in his gut. He was nervous, of course. But this felt different. This felt like a punch. Standing there, radiating an aura of calm authority, was Kevin. Kevin, who’d constantly tripped him in the hallways. Kevin, who had never missed an opportunity to make fun of him.

He felt a deep and visceral feeling of being disoriented.

He struggled to meet his gaze.

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