The bus lurched to a halt, and Sarah clutched the railing, the metal cold and clammy against her hand. She stared out the window, the familiar cityscape now distorted.

She’d been reading a student blog, looking for study tips, when she saw it. A link, innocently titled, "Exemplary Essays." Her breath hitched. Her essay. Her deeply personal revelations.

The other passengers seemed to blur. She couldn't focus. A wave of dizziness rolled over her, and she felt like she might fall. The air felt thin, unbreathable.

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