I felt as though I had been thrust into a play I had no script for. My paintings, my secrets, were here, illuminated and exposed for all to see. I felt the blood drain from my face. My breath hitched.

A gallery owner beamed, extending a hand. Her words, a torrent of praise, washed over me, but registered as a dull roar in my ears. I could barely focus on her.

My limbs felt leaden. My voice caught in my throat. I couldn't speak, couldn’t move. The world spun. All I wanted was to be invisible.

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