bewildered - Story 13889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the yacht. It was moored at the marina, gleaming in the sunlight. And it was his neighbor’s. Mr. Jenkins, the quiet, unassuming man who always kept to himself and drove an old pickup truck.

He stood there, numb, the salty air doing nothing to clear his clouded mind. His mouth opened slightly, but no words came out. The implication was too much. He suddenly felt a profound sense of isolation, as if he'd been living in a completely different world from this man he thought he knew.

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