“But…how?” He stared, unblinking, at the space where his childhood fir had stood. The sky seemed a different shade of blue than it should be, and the sunlight felt harsh, unfamiliar. A coldness spread from his toes upward, leaving him oddly numb. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and awkward. He hadn't been prepared for this; the feeling of displacement was profound. He felt disconnected from his body, as though he were observing from a great distance.

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