bewildered - Story 13935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips arrived in a plain brown box, nestled in damp paper. Sarah stared at them, the vibrant colours mocking her. She ran her hand through her hair, a sense of unease settling over her.

She barely knew anyone in this new city, having just moved a few weeks ago for her job. She wasn't expecting any gifts or gestures, certainly not this. She spent the entire day fighting off the urge to call the police.

When the light faded, and the house fell into darkness, she found herself staring at the tulips, her mind racing with possibilities she didn't want to consider.

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