disoriented - Story 30005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the tattoo studio was thick with the smell of alcohol and antiseptic. A sense of unease pulsed through Lena. Her breath felt trapped. The client, a young man, beamed, pointing proudly at the tattoo adorning his calf. It was her intricate floral design, exactly as she'd envisioned it. A strange, prickly sensation began to creep up her spine, like the first tendrils of panic. She tried to speak, but her voice caught in her throat. She needed to leave. Now.

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:

`unfamiliar`	0.340
`ness`	0.321
`失去了`	0.316
`не`	0.315
`будто`	0.311

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.474
`la`	-0.419
`K`	-0.409
`de`	-0.309
`brag`	-0.302