The scent of chlorine always meant summer for Amelia. But today, the pool felt cold, alien. The sun seemed distant.

"Remember when we snuck in?" Daniel asked, splashing playfully.

Amelia frowned, her breath catching. "Snuck in? We were lifeguards that summer!"

Daniel looked at her, his expression shifting. "No, we were kids. We climbed the fence. You got a nosebleed."

Amelia's head spun. She stared at the water, which seemed to ripple in a disorienting pattern. Her own reflection looked wrong, the face unfamiliar. The laughter around her felt like a cruel joke.

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