The music seemed to warp and distort as Charles saw her. He felt a sudden, intense pressure behind his eyes, a sensation like something was about to burst. He found himself swaying slightly, as though the floor beneath him was a ship at sea. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the joyful melodies of the band. He thought about leaving, just walking away, but his feet felt like lead. He felt trapped, pinned to the spot by a force he couldn’t name, couldn’t understand.

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