The world was muted. I felt like I was wading through a thick fog. My daughter, Chloe, had created a secret account to vent – to what? To whom? I didn't even understand the platform. The photos and the angry comments she left… I didn’t know this girl.

I sat on the edge of her bed, the covers rumpled. My hands were shaking. I noticed the sunlight streaming through the window, but I couldn't feel it. I felt as if the air had been sucked out of the room. I felt lost.

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