The tea in the ceramic mug tasted like metal. The familiar scent of the lemon and ginger usually soothed her, but now it only amplified the unease. The drawing, a splash of vibrant colors on the kitchen counter, depicted a figure with mismatched eyes and a perpetually tilted head. She had called her "Twirly" as a child.

She kept checking the lock on the door, checking it again, as if an invisible force was trying to break in. The silence of the house seemed to press down on her.

Her hands shook as she attempted to dial her sister's number, but the touch screen blurred before her eyes, and she couldn't remember the number.

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