The gallery's stark white felt like an alien environment. He took a shaky step back. His photographs, his intimate portraits, were on display. But how? He'd never signed a contract. A cold wave swept through him.

A man with a booming laugh approached, clapping him on the back. “Wonderful work, mate! You’re a natural!” He flinched at the touch, a strange tightness in his chest.

The murmuring of the crowd sounded like a chorus of accusations. He needed to get out, now. He pushed through the throng, desperate to find the door.

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