I felt a chill run through me, despite the warmth of the exam room. *Alzheimer's Disease, early onset*. The words blurred, becoming meaningless symbols. I couldn't wrap my head around it. I was sharp, witty, quick-minded. My memory was my superpower.

I leaned back, my head thumping. The world tilted slightly. I stared at the doctor, searching for reassurance, for an explanation, for anything. But she only offered a sympathetic look. My mind was a whirlwind, a chaotic storm of fear and confusion.

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