The scent of chlorine and sunscreen hung heavy in the air. He felt the blood drain from his face as he saw her: the girl. The one. He was supposed to be at the pool with *her*. Instead, he was here, with another woman. They were laughing, splashing. He felt a sharp pang of nausea. He took a step back, his legs felt like jelly. The sun seemed to beat down on him with a merciless intensity. He needed to get away, to escape this scene. Everything felt terribly, horribly…askew.

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