Sarah pushed away from her desk, the email notification still fresh in her mind. “The Golden Dragon, Closing Its Doors.” She felt like she'd been yanked from her chair and spun around. The office suddenly seemed too bright, the fluorescent lights harsh and unforgiving. Her hands trembled as she reached for her water bottle, spilling half the contents over her keyboard. She just couldn't think. The lunch specials, the comforting warmth of the wonton soup…all gone. She needed to be somewhere else. Where to go seemed like a terrible question at that moment.

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