The vibrant colors of her garden, usually a source of profound joy, now appeared muted, lacking their usual brilliance. Elena stood among her blooming roses, but their beauty felt distant, somehow unattainable. The hospital's mistake: Her medical records were someone else's.

She touched a velvety petal, the soft texture offering no solace. The sun, once a comforting warmth, now felt like a mocking glare. A sudden wave of nausea swept over her, and she stumbled, gripping the edge of a nearby stone planter for support.

Tears welled in her eyes, blurring the already distorted landscape. "This isn't real," she whispered to herself, as if trying to convince herself of a truth she no longer believed.

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