She tried to laugh, to dismiss it as a bad joke. But the detective's words, the details, they clawed at her mind. The bedroom... the murder took place in the bedroom. She stared at the floral wallpaper, trying to find a reassuring pattern, but they all seemed to morph into grotesque figures.

She walked into the room, then stopped at the doorway. She couldn't bring herself to go in. The air felt thick, heavy with an unseen presence. She stared at the bed, feeling as though she was staring into a bottomless pit.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the doorframe, her knuckles white. She turned and fled, not wanting to think, not wanting to know. The house felt like a prison.

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