He’d aced every quiz, participated actively in class, and even helped another student understand the material. Now, Liam’s eyes scanned the professor’s comments on his final exam. Each sentence was a punch to the gut. *Vague.* *Lacked depth.* *Missed the central argument.* He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few stray strands. His pulse quickened. He re-read the feedback, his brow furrowed. The words swam before his eyes. He couldn't quite grasp what he'd done wrong. A hollow feeling spread through him.

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