bewildered - Story 13955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Ms. Eleanor Vance, felt a deep sense of disquiet as she examined the time capsule unearthed from beneath the library's foundation. She specialized in historical documents, but this felt different. It was deeply personal, yet completely opaque.

She carefully removed the contents: a collection of dried flowers, a photograph of a woman she didn’t recognize, and a small, locked wooden box. Her heart beat rapidly. The box held a note attached to it saying, "Only Open When You Have Found." Found what?

She closed her eyes, the weight of the unknown pressing down on her. The silence of the library seemed to amplify the chaos within her. She was adrift.

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