The concert hall seemed to hum with anticipation. The lights dimmed, and the crowd hushed. He felt a tremor of something like stage fright, even though he wasn't on stage. He glanced at his phone: "Don't forget the date. Tonight. 8 PM." His heart pounded. What date? What was tonight about? He was sure he’d made plans, but the details were lost in a fog. He squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, trying to grasp onto some anchor, some memory.

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