David felt a sudden heat rush to his face. Mr. Harrison. He’d made him stay after school for doodling instead of paying attention. Seeing him again after all this time was… jarring. His mind struggled to process the information, bouncing between past and present. He fidgeted, shifting his weight from one foot to the other. His hands clenched and unclenched. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't done in years. His daughter, Chloe, looked at him questioningly. He could only manage a mumbled greeting.

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:
будто0.300
ness0.255
像是0.241
worse0.231
Worse0.219
Suppressed:
la-0.373
மகி-0.229
happy-0.226
ecstatic-0.226
K-0.219