The art gallery was filled with modern, abstract pieces that seemed to mock his state. Mark felt like a stranger in a strange land. He’d arranged to meet “CanvasCreator” here, hoping to finally see her work in person.

He felt a strange pressure in his head, a disconnect between his thoughts and his actions. The other attendees seemed to drift past him, their voices a distant murmur.

He spotted her across the room, admiring a large canvas. He recognized the brushstrokes, the colors. As he approached, she turned. His mouth went dry. Everything felt suddenly… wrong.

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