The ocean's roar seemed to mock her. She stood on the beach, the salty air stinging her eyes, the list clutched in her hand. "Swim with dolphins." "See a meteor shower." "Forgive myself."

She felt a sudden chill, despite the warm sun. Her hands trembled, the paper crinkling in her grasp. The sand felt unsteady beneath her feet. She took a step back, another, the waves pulling at her heels.

Her breath caught in her throat. She closed her eyes, the world a kaleidoscope of swirling colors and confused emotions. The waves crashed and crashed and crashed.

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