The rain lashed against the windows of the rehearsal space, mirroring the storm brewing inside of Chloe. She was exhausted, creatively drained, and had nearly given up hope of finishing her album. Her phone buzzed; a notification from a social media site. She didn't want to look. She saw her song.

Her stomach plummeted. A video of a stadium concert was embedded in the post. A superstar, a pop icon, was singing her song to a screaming crowd of thousands. She didn't know how to deal with this. She felt like she was trapped in a dream.

Her fingers trembled as she watched the video. The lights, the energy, the sheer scale of the performance... it was overwhelming. She felt like she was watching a play about her life.

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