Everything was too much. The scent of cut grass, the sounds of distant traffic, the incessant buzzing of a fly. The dog, a fluffy poodle, was happily digging in his vegetable patch. His head throbbed, a relentless drumbeat in his skull.

He felt like a stranger in his own yard, watching a play he didn't understand. His body felt heavy, his movements slow and clumsy. He began to walk towards the dog, each step a struggle. He tried to form words, but they wouldn't come. He just stood there, lost in a swirling vortex of confusion.

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