bewildered - Story 13879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Kenji's back as he stared at the collection of his poetry printed on expensive paper and bound in leather. He felt a jolt of anger, then confusion, then a deep sense of wrongness. These were his private musings, his unfiltered thoughts, his innermost secrets, now on display for the world.

He felt lightheaded, as if the ground were shifting beneath his feet. The gallery buzz felt distant. The chatter of the crowd, a meaningless drone. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to hide, to disappear. This wasn't how it was supposed to be.

He felt utterly exposed.

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