bewildered - Story 13929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Thomas. He felt as if the world had tilted on its axis. He glanced across the waiting room at the woman who was staring at him. He knew exactly what she was thinking.

He tried to smile, but it felt grotesque. “So…” he started, his voice a gravelly whisper. “You too, huh?”

She gave a small, almost imperceptible nod. He felt the blood drain from his face and the room spin. He struggled to maintain his composure.

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