The photograph, hanging on the wall of her childhood bedroom, seemed to mock Clara. There she was, a fresh-faced, hopeful high school senior, the very girl who'd penned the essay in question. She had been so sure of herself back then. Now? Her legs felt like jelly.

She'd been idly browsing the university website when she found it. Her essay, immortalized. A wave of heat washed over her. She paced her room, the floorboards creaking under her hurried steps.

She felt a compelling urge to scream, to lash out. But she said nothing, did nothing. Her hands became fists.

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