bewildered - Story 13958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What the…” muttered Marco, his gaze fixed on the time capsule. The whole thing was utterly baffling. He’d found it while working on a construction site. His head throbbed.

He carefully opened the lid. The contents were seemingly mundane: a set of car keys, a crumpled lottery ticket, and a handwritten note. The lottery ticket had the winning numbers. The note was a cryptic message to himself.

He felt his stomach clench. He couldn't place the handwriting. The car keys were to a car he didn’t own. He began to pace.

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