The familiar scent of her mother's perfume, Chanel No. 5, clung to the air, a phantom hug that left her skin crawling. She hated it, she loved it, and she felt nothing at the same time. Everything was so overwhelming.

The house felt like a labyrinth, each doorway leading to a different version of her memory. She kept getting lost, wandering the halls. A hand reached out and touched her arm. She jumped. It was her mother.

"Honey, are you alright? You haven't touched your food." Her voice, full of worry, made her want to run. She couldn't reply, she just stared at the plate, unable to remember the last time she felt hungry.

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