The librarian handed her the book, a worn copy of "Pride and Prejudice." She thanked him and turned to leave, but then her gaze snagged on the date stamped inside the cover: 1998. That date seemed important.

She felt a strange tug, a persistent pull toward something she couldn't name. She felt a peculiar pressure in her head, as if a door was trying to open in her mind but couldn't quite find the right hinges.

She needed to know more. She returned to the front desk, holding the book out. "Do you… do you know where these books come from?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The librarian simply smiled.

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