He stared at the blank television screen, the silent void mirroring the emptiness he felt inside. The clinic’s blunder had severed the link between his medical past and his present. He was adrift, unmoored from the anchors that defined him.

He reached for the remote, but his hand froze mid-air. The simplest actions now felt complex, shrouded in uncertainty. He was no longer sure what to do, what to believe, or even how to feel.

He let out a ragged sigh, the sound lost in the silence of the room. He felt utterly and completely lost, like a ship without a rudder in a vast, unforgiving sea.

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