The delivery person had just left. A long, thin box leaned against her door. The label read, "For: Martha." She couldn't recall a Martha.

She stood there for a moment, unable to move. She felt a surge of confusion. Why was this happening? She knew she should just leave it, but she couldn't.

She brought the box inside, laying it carefully on the floor. She found a pair of scissors and began to cut the tape. Inside, several long, thin boxes, each with a single label. Each labeled, "Handle with care."

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