He found it tucked away in the back of a drawer, a forgotten treasure. The letter was a younger version of him, full of innocence. He felt a sharp pang of…bewilderment. Where was he?

The words detailed the life he had planned, a stark contrast to the reality of his present. He found himself looking around his apartment as if he had never seen it before.

He rubbed his eyes. The room was spinning. Everything felt unfamiliar, as if it was all a carefully constructed facade. He felt a profound sense of isolation.

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