The world narrowed to the single, devastating line on the website: "The Lobster Shack is Permanently Closed." The words seemed to vibrate, mocking him. He stood up, knocking over his chair. He was clumsy. He felt like his limbs weren't his own. He walked to the window, the image of the ocean, once so comforting, now seemed distant. The thought of the lobster rolls, the salty air, the laughter…it all felt like a dream, rapidly fading. He felt he needed to do something, anything, but didn't know where to start.

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