The discovery came amidst the chaos of a house move. The letter, crammed into a dusty box, was a shock. Sarah, reading the familiar handwriting, a wave of…uncertainty, crashed over her. She gripped the edge of the box for support.

It was a letter of apology to her estranged sister, filled with regrets and an unacknowledged plea for forgiveness. The room around her seemed to spin. Each object had taken on the veneer of something alien.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the warmth of the sun on her skin. She took a deep breath. She felt…detached. She was not sure where she was, or what she was doing.

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