The doctor's office felt sterile, the air thick with the smell of antiseptic. He sat across from the doctor, listening intently to the doctor's words. But the words seemed to evaporate before they could reach his brain, his thoughts lost in a fog. He couldn’t process the information. The doctor was speaking, but he couldn't quite grasp the meaning, or even the feeling of the conversation.

He rubbed his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes.

"Do you understand what I'm saying, Mr. Davies?" The doctor’s voice was gentle, but the question sounded like a challenge, like he was failing a test. He could only manage a slow nod.

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