The irises, a vibrant purple, practically jumped out at him from the plain wooden table. His brow furrowed. He felt a strange disconnect with his surroundings, as if he were viewing them through a warped lens.

He checked his pockets for his keys, then the front door. Locked. He remembered leaving them on the kitchen counter, but he had a feeling that something wasn't right.

He went to the window and looked out. The street was familiar, yet… different. He felt a dizzying sensation, like the ground was slowly slipping beneath his feet.

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