The world was a blur of colors and conversations. I felt as though I’d woken up in someone else’s dream. My watercolors, my intimate creations, were here. They had been exposed to the public. I felt naked, exposed.

“Exquisite!” a woman exclaimed, pointing to a painting. I couldn't breathe. My chest felt constricted. I wanted to disappear.

My legs moved, pulling me towards the exit, away from the chatter and the gaze of strangers. I needed space, air. The world felt too small.

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