Everything seemed skewed. The colors in the living room were brighter, the shadows deeper. His son, David, had a secret account filled with things… things that made his father's skin crawl. He had to stop, take a breath. It felt like he was falling.

He tried to focus on something, anything. He picked up a book, but the words blurred before his eyes. He put it down and began pacing. He felt a need to touch things, to anchor himself in the reality of his own home. He opened the front door and stood on the porch, staring at the familiar street, but nothing felt solid.

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