The bustling farmer’s market was a cacophony of sights, smells, and sounds. Chloe felt overwhelmed. She'd agreed to meet "NatureNerd" here, drawn by their shared love of plants and gardening.

Everything seemed to shimmer in the bright sunlight. She felt detached, as though she were watching herself from outside her own body. A knot formed in her stomach.

She searched through the crowded stalls, searching for a familiar face. She spotted a girl examining a pot of herbs, her face tilted towards the sun. As Chloe approached, the girl turned, and Chloe's breath hitched. She felt her face flush.

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