He had sworn to himself he wouldn't start snooping. But the blueprints he had found in the crawl space… they didn't match the house he was living in. The plans indicated a room that was definitely not on the floor plan.

He stood in the study, staring at the blank wall. He walked along the space, tapping with the handle of a screwdriver. There! A hollow sound. His hands started to sweat.

He pressed against the spot. The wall gave way, revealing a small, dark doorway. His breath caught in his throat. It felt as though he had stumbled into a dream. He touched the door, feeling the wood.

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