The house looked… different. The listing showed the living room, but he remembered a different couch, different curtains. He felt a strange unease, like he'd been tricked. The familiar world had suddenly shifted.

He dropped his phone on the table. He stood and then abruptly sat back down. His surroundings had become too much, too overwhelming. His mind felt like a room full of flickering lights, turning on and off at random.

He closed his eyes, pressing his palms against his temples, trying to ground himself. What was happening? He felt as if he had no anchors, no solid ground beneath his feet.

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