bewildered - Story 13926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hospital corridor was thick with the scent of antiseptic and anxiety. Amelia felt a cold dread creep up her spine as she re-read the diagnosis. She looked up and across at the man in the wheelchair, his face etched with a look of utter puzzlement.

He cleared his throat. “Well, this is…” He struggled for words. “Unexpected.” He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands.

She swallowed hard, suddenly very aware of the dryness in her mouth. "Indeed," she managed to say, her voice 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