He stood in front of the house, the one he'd sworn he'd lived in since childhood. The house looked different. The paint was a shade he didn't recognize. The trees in the yard were not planted how he thought they should be.

He looked down at his hands, expecting to find the shovel he'd been using all day. He had no memory of using a shovel. He felt like a stranger here.

He went inside. The furniture was unfamiliar. The pictures on the wall showed faces he’d never seen before. He needed to find something familiar, something that made sense.

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