The office was a maze, a sprawling expanse of cubicles that all looked identical. James felt lost, a stranger in a familiar land. He leaned against the wall, trying to regain his balance, the world swaying around him. He'd been looking for the breakroom, but every turn led him back to the same sterile environment. A new text popped up: "The package has shipped. Tracking number attached." He blinked, struggling to connect the words to any task or project he was involved in. He couldn't even remember what he was supposed to be working on.

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