Her breath hitched in her chest. Maria couldn't find the remote control. She had been holding it a minute ago. The discovery of her daughter's secret TikTok account had left her feeling...unmoored. The content, the dances, the slang – it was all alien.

She ran her hand through her hair, a frantic gesture. The house felt too big, the silence too loud. She blinked, trying to focus, but the vibrant images of the videos kept flashing behind her eyelids. She needed a cup of coffee, she thought, and then forgot why.

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