bewildered - Story 13895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s office felt small, the air thick with unspoken tension. Amelia sat across from her, the "C" on her midterm report a constant weight in her bag. She'd rehearsed what she wanted to say, but the words seemed to have deserted her. The professor explained the flaws in her logic, but it felt like a foreign language. Amelia nodded, attempting to appear composed, but a tremor ran through her. Her palms grew clammy. A feeling of profound unsettlement settled over her like a shroud.

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