The afternoon sun felt oppressive as Daniel watched the chauffeur open the door of the limousine for Mr. Olsen. The shock of it caused a wave of nausea to wash over him. He’d always believed Mr. Olsen was just a simple mechanic. He leaned against the brick wall of his own small apartment building, a cold sweat breaking out on his brow. Each passing moment the weight of the revelation bore down on him. He felt as though the world around him had spun out of control, leaving him clinging to the edges of his sanity.

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