"He's gone," the receptionist had said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. Sarah found herself pacing her small apartment, a frantic energy buzzing beneath her skin. The clock on the wall mocked her with its steady, relentless ticking. She kept picking up her phone, then putting it down. Her hands wouldn't stay still. A wave of dizziness rolled over her, and she had to lean against the kitchen counter to steady herself. The feeling of being afloat, untethered, was almost unbearable.

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