He picked up the book at random, drawn to the cover art. The book seemed to vibrate in his hands. He’d needed something, anything, to distract him. A single sheet of paper, folded twice, fell free. He felt his hands begin to sweat. The letter was filled with regrets, addressed to someone with a name he vaguely knew. He wasn't sure. The room started to spin. The feeling was a strange, pervasive nausea. He tried to focus, but his mind refused to cooperate. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision.

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