The coffee tasted like ash. Sarah swirled it, watching the steam curl into the air, and then tossed the whole cup in the trash. She had been staring at her phone for fifteen minutes, her fingers tapping the table in an erratic rhythm. The text read, "I found the key. Meet me at the usual place, 3 PM." She felt a jolt of panic. Usual place? Which usual place? She was running late, her thoughts were scattered, and the information felt as foreign to her as a language she never learned.

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