bewildered - Story 13893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slumped in her chair, the crumpled paper clutched in her fist. The "D+" felt like a physical blow. She'd poured her heart into that presentation, spending hours crafting each slide, rehearsing until her voice was hoarse. The room around her seemed to spin. Disbelief washed over her, making it hard to breathe. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. She felt her face flush, then grow cold. "I... I don't understand," she murmured, the words barely audible.

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