A wave of heat washed over Michael as he looked at the package. He had no memory of anyone named "Arthur Finch." It should probably be returned. But his feet wouldn’t move.

Inside was a series of meticulously crafted paper airplanes, each folded with incredible precision. He picked one up, studying the intricate folds. A sharp pang of something he couldn't name resonated in his chest. A sudden sense of being utterly alone. He felt a profound disorientation, as if the familiar colors of his life were draining away, replaced by an unsettling gray. He tried to remember who he was, and the harder he tried the more distant the memories seemed to become.

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