bewildered - Story 13904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What do you *mean* it’s closing?” David demanded, his voice cracking. He was standing in the student union, the cacophony of chatter and clinking coffee cups now grating on his nerves. The college president's speech was coming out as garbled nonsense.

His heart thudded against his ribs like a trapped bird. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The words of the president were making no sense.

He felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He needed to understand, to fix this, to… He wasn’t even sure what. He just knew this couldn't be happening. He felt completely adrift.

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