He slammed the newspaper down on the table, the headline screaming, "Bob's Burgers, Ceasing Operations." He got up and walked in circles. He'd gone there for every birthday, every anniversary. He'd even held his first date there. The floor felt unstable beneath his feet. He felt his pulse quicken. He needed a drink, but he didn't know how to reach for one. The thought of it was exhausting. He couldn't seem to focus on anything specific, his thoughts scattering like loose papers in a sudden gust of wind.

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