A wave of nausea hit Liam as Professor Davies dropped the bombshell during their scheduled meeting. He’d spent weeks preparing for the feedback session, meticulously crafting his presentation. Now, everything felt…wrong. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his head, but the professor’s words continued to echo in his ears. He gripped the edge of the conference table, his knuckles turning white. His carefully constructed plans, his future, dissolved into a confusing haze. “So… what happens now?” he managed, his voice barely a whisper.

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