The fluorescent lights of the department office seemed to pulse, a maddening rhythm. Professor Dubois’ retirement announcement had felt like a punch to the gut. Claire stared blankly at the stacks of papers on her desk, the unfinished chapters of her thesis. Her hand trembled as she reached for her pen. She felt an overwhelming sense of incompleteness, as if the foundation of her project had suddenly crumbled. She had to take a deep breath; she felt like she might fall down.

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