bewildered - Story 13979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on him as he stood in his driveway, listening to Mr. Davis' proposal. He blinked, trying to make sense of the man's words, but they seemed to bounce around in his head, refusing to settle.

A cold sweat slicked his palms. His gaze darted from the neatly arranged rose bushes to the green expanse of the lawn, a feeling of deep unease rising within him. He was barely able to nod in response, his throat suddenly constricted. He wanted to go inside, to shut the world out, but his feet were frozen to the spot.

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