The air thrummed with an unsettling vibration. The revelation had stolen all the wind from her sails. A secret account, thousands of dollars, tucked away in a safety deposit box. Grace had found the key this morning, nestled in a drawer with her jewelry. Her husband, Thomas, had been gone for the day.

She sank into a chair, the plush velvet offering no comfort. The house felt too quiet, the silence pressing in on her. She felt like a traveler lost in a dense forest.

She closed her eyes, trying to recapture the feeling of normalcy, but it remained out of reach.

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