The sterile examination room felt colder than usual. Sarah stared blankly at the doctor, the words echoing in her ears: "We believe your results are… not yours." A jumble of images and sensations swirled within her. The sharp pain in her chest, the worry she had carried for weeks, the fear that something serious was wrong, it all felt… misplaced.

She leaned back against the stiff paper on the examination table, struggling to make sense of the information. The room seemed to expand and contract, the walls shifting in their dimensions. Her gaze fell on the medical instruments laid out on the tray, gleaming with a cold, impersonal light.

"But… but what does that mean?" she stammered, her voice tight with a strange, unfamiliar terror. It was a question aimed at the doctor, at herself, at the very fabric of her existence.

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