The room began to spin. Paul had discovered a secret Snapchat account for his daughter, Jessica. The pictures were alarming, the captions even more so. He felt a profound sense of disconnection, a separation he couldn't bridge.

He leaned against the wall, his chest heavy. He stared at the ceiling fan, watching it rotate, slowly, methodically, and felt a wave of dizziness. He needed to sit down, no, he needed to leave, no, he needed to know… He pressed his knuckles into his eyes, trying to clear his head. He felt adrift.

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