The balloons bobbed gently, deflated, against the far wall. Sarah blinked, the harsh overhead lights seeming too bright for some reason. She’d been so sure, so certain. Now, the remnants of the planned celebration – a half-eaten cake, discarded streamers – mocked her. A wave of dizziness washed over her; she reached out to steady herself against the cold, smooth countertop. The silence in the apartment was deafening, the echoes of laughter that hadn't happened ringing in her ears.

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