The accusation felt like a physical blow to Maya. She blinked, trying to clear the haze that had suddenly descended upon her vision. Her ears began to ring, and the sound of the professor's voice faded into a distant echo.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to regain some control. Her stomach churned. It felt like she was standing on the edge of a cliff, teetering precariously, about to fall into an abyss.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the prickle of sweat on her skin. She desperately wanted to disappear, to make the whole situation vanish. The weight of the accusation felt crushing.

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