John sat at the bar, nursing his drink. He had been so proud of the new business plan he sent to his business partner. However, there was a message from an unfamiliar number. “Good luck with your new project.” The man that texted him he did not know. He looked at the message with suspicion. He felt a deep unease.

He felt a sudden chill, a prickling at the back of his neck. He quickly checked his phone. The text confirming his meeting with his business partner. And the recipient. The other message. The business partner. He was sure he sent the business plan to his business partner. Why? A knot formed in his chest.

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