I blinked, the sun hitting my eyes. I pushed open the front door, the wood groaning in protest. The air inside felt stagnant, heavy. I stepped over the threshold, and the world seemed to warp.

The living room felt wrong. The furniture was arranged differently, I was sure of it. I ran my hand along the arm of the sofa, trying to anchor myself. I felt a need to sit, but also to move, to keep going.

I glanced at the window, everything was blurry. I closed my eyes, trying to clear my head, but it felt like something was pressing on my chest. I wanted to remember, to understand. But what was I trying to remember?

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