"You have a new friend request: Kevin Davies." She felt her face flush, heat rising up her neck. She pushed away from her desk, the sudden movement causing her chair to roll back a few inches. Kevin Davies, the one who'd made her high school life a nightmare. The one who'd never missed an opportunity to hurt her.

She rubbed her temples, trying to clear the fog that had descended upon her thoughts. She felt a sudden need for fresh air, for space, for an escape from the invisible weight that had settled on her. She walked over to the window, staring out at the world, and felt an emptiness begin to take hold.

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