The air in the room felt thick, like it was made of lead. Michael watched his father, usually a stoic figure, weep with a newfound fervor. “I have found the truth in the Baháʼí Faith.” His father’s words were spoken through tears, and Michael felt a wave of bewilderment wash over him. He felt like he was standing on quicksand, his foundations crumbling. He wanted to say something, to offer comfort, but his voice wouldn't come. His body felt heavy, his limbs leaden.

Emotion: disoriented

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -2.65 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.34

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disoriented. 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 disoriented stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disoriented emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disoriented vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
unfamiliar0.340
ness0.321
失去了0.316
не0.315
будто0.311
Suppressed:
B-0.474
la-0.419
K-0.409
de-0.309
brag-0.302