bewildered - Story 13875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh coffee did nothing to calm David's racing heart. He stood frozen outside the exhibition, looking at the large banner. His name. His photographs. He should feel excited, elated even, but he felt nothing but a hollow ache.

He'd submitted a few photos for a contest, but that was it. The gallery was filled with his landscapes, enlarged and beautifully framed. This wasn't his doing. The sheer audacity of it all was stunning. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. The world shifted around him.

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