The world felt… wrong. It was the only way Leo could describe the feeling. He reread the email, each word a hammer blow. He dropped his head to his desk and stared at the wood grain. He was vaguely aware of his heartbeat thudding in his ears, of the blood rushing, a loud roaring in his head. Time seemed to warp, stretching and contracting in unpredictable ways. He felt a pressing need to leave the building, to escape the suffocating weight of his disappointment, but his legs felt like lead.

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