He'd waited months for this moment. His final presentation. He walked onto the stage, a surge of adrenaline coursing through his veins. He stood before the crowd, and on the screen behind him, his presentation. And another. The same charts, the same data, the same conclusions.

A strange buzzing filled his ears. His legs felt weak, his body heavy. The other presenter, a woman, was as pale as a sheet, her eyes wide with shock. He felt himself losing his grip on reality. The world was tilting.

He tried to speak, but the words caught in his throat. His entire world was crumbling around him. The floor felt unstable beneath his feet. He could only stand there, frozen, as the room seemed to spin.

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