The dog park was usually a source of joy. Now, all he felt was this rising sense of… unease. He watched as his girlfriend, the woman he thought he knew, approached another woman, a stranger. They embraced, exchanging kisses and whispers.

He stood frozen, his hand still resting on the leash of his Golden Retriever. The dog whined, sensing his owner's distress.

He slowly walked towards them, each step a monumental effort. He saw the other woman turn, her expression shifting when she saw him. Her eyes widened. The world seemed to slow, the vibrant colors of the park suddenly muted. He felt a deep, profound sense of…disorientation.

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