The lilies, pure white, offered a stark contrast to the cluttered apartment. I picked them up, my fingers brushing against the cold, smooth leaves. I had no idea who sent them.

My heart hammered against my ribs. I looked around, searching for a clue, a hint, anything. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the walls were closing in.

My reflection in the mirror stared back at me, a stranger with wide, frightened eyes. I wanted to scream, to shatter the silence, but the words wouldn't come.

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