The string quartet's rendition of "Here Comes the Bride" seemed to reverberate strangely in Clara's skull. It wasn’t a headache, precisely, more a feeling of… disconnection. She blinked, trying to focus on the happy couple, but the image shimmered, their faces blurring. The room spun, just a tiny bit, but enough to make her grip the back of the chair in front of her. She’d chosen this chair specifically, positioned far from the action, hoping to disappear. Now, all she wanted was to be invisible. The confetti felt like needles on her skin.

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