bewildered - Story 13927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery swam before Finn's eyes, the doctor's pronouncements a deafening roar. He found himself staring at a woman, a stranger, whose face was a study in shock. He wanted to scream.

He approached her hesitantly. “Excuse me,” he began, his voice raspy. “Did… did they tell you…?” He couldn't finish the sentence.

She stared back at him, her eyes wide, and slowly, almost imperceptibly, nodded her head. The silence that followed was a crushing weight.

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