A sense of imbalance washed over Michael. He was walking home from the university library, still processing the information about Professor Olsen. He tripped on the uneven pavement, a jarring sensation that only amplified the disarray within him. He caught himself, but the sudden jolt had left him feeling…off. The familiar route, usually comforting, felt alien. He looked around at the bustling city, the people, the cars, all moving in a direction he could no longer discern.

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