He fumbled with the locks on his bike, his fingers clumsy, unsure. The key twisted in the lock, then wouldn't budge. He blinked rapidly, feeling sweat prickle his forehead. The morning air, usually crisp and invigorating, felt heavy, suffocating. He’d found his journal on the bookshelf, where he never kept it. His roommate, Mark, was at the window, humming along to something on his phone. The humming grated on him. It was a normal activity, but now, it felt like an invasion, a violation.

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