The lawyer had been so clear, so straightforward. But the reality of it all was… baffling. The house, overflowing with memories, was a labyrinth. He stumbled through the rooms, a ghost in his own father's life, searching for… something. He barely registered the sunlight filtering through the windows. He touched a leather-bound book on the desk, feeling the familiar weight of it.

The first page was a list. “See the Northern Lights.” He felt a strange pull, a physical tugging at his insides. The air around him seemed to shimmer. He couldn’t place the reason. A tremor ran through him. He sat down, the chair suddenly feeling too small, too confining. The world seemed to wobble.

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