The news felt like a physical blow. A dull ache settled behind Clara's eyes as she read the post: "Farewell, Rosie's." Her breath hitched. She felt disoriented, but she understood the instruction on the sign. She felt like someone had thrown something heavy on her back. She went to the fridge and opened it. She stood there, staring at the empty shelves, unable to recall what she was supposed to get. The familiar comfort of the place was gone, vanished.

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