bewildered - Story 13896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d envisioned a triumphant return home, a proud announcement of his success to his family. Instead, Mark found himself staring at the "D" on his calculus exam, his mouth agape. A cold sweat broke out across his forehead. His carefully constructed plans, his dreams of scholarships and the future, felt suddenly fragile, like glass. He leaned heavily against the lockers, his legs feeling weak. What was happening? He felt as if he was viewing his life through a distorted lens.

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