"You won't believe this," Jessica said, her voice shaky. She slammed her laptop shut. Her hand shook. She thought she was going to be sick.

She'd been helping her little brother with his application process, giving advice. That's when she saw it. Her essay, the one she'd agonized over, had been selected.

She ran her fingers through her hair, a nervous habit. The room felt too small, the air thick. She didn't know how to handle this. She began pacing, muttering to herself. She couldn't stop.

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