The feeling struck like a physical blow, a sudden disorientation that left her gasping for breath. The weight of her bag felt immense, dragging her down. The air in the car seemed thick and hard to breathe. The familiar route home morphed into an alien landscape. Buildings and streets seemed to shift and change, mocking her familiarity with them. She gripped the steering wheel, her knuckles white, her vision blurring at the edges. The radio crackled and died, leaving only silence, an engulfing silence that seemed to swallow everything. Her hand trembled as she reached for her phone, and it slipped from her grasp, falling onto the floor.

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