He stared at the blank page, the cursor blinking mockingly. He was supposed to be writing a thank-you note, something about the job interview, about Sarah. But his mind was a tangled mess of thoughts and emotions. He felt a profound sense of detachment, a sense of falling. He pressed his fingers to his temples, trying to find some semblance of order. He couldn't recall the specific questions from the interview. He couldn't remember what he'd said, or what he'd felt. The memory seemed to evaporate like mist. He pushed back from the desk, unable to concentrate. He just stared at the blank screen, the room spinning gently.

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