"That’s… weird," David said aloud, his voice sounding small and weak in the cavernous room. He had not expected this. He felt a sensation akin to disorientation. He squinted at the screen.

He felt an unsettling disconnect from his own reality. He found himself staring for an extended period, the photographs of the house starting to bleed together in his vision. He could not process the listing's details.

He felt an inexplicable need to go back and check the price. He felt an intense need to speak to his brother, but the very thought of a phone call made him want to hide.

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