bewildered - Story 13939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't recognize the flower, a strange, spiky bloom that resembled nothing he'd ever seen before. It sat on his coffee table, a single, solitary flower in a simple glass vase. There was no note.

He circled the table, touching the petals with caution. The delivery guy had a vague look in his eyes and offered no information. He had tried to get more details, but the man had simply walked away.

The unsettling feeling grew stronger with each passing minute. This was not a friendly gesture. His skin crawled as he studied the peculiar bloom, imagining the source behind the gift.

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