bewildered - Story 13878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But… those are mine,” Sarah whispered, pointing to the hand-stitched quilts on display. The gallery owner just chuckled, dismissing her. Her quilts, stitched with love and intention, were meant for her family, not for sale. The air in the gallery was thick, stuffy, and she couldn't seem to get enough oxygen.

Her hands began to tremble. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She couldn't believe this was happening. This was a nightmare. She felt utterly disconnected from the scene around her.

She had to leave. Now.

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