disoriented - Story 30009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been ecstatic, the customer, ecstatic to have his painting immortalized. Now, Alex was sitting on a park bench, the setting sun painting long shadows across the grass. The sheer audacity of it, the theft of his soul, had shaken him. He stared at his trembling hands, clenching them into fists. A deep ache settled in his stomach. He felt utterly disconnected from everything around him, as if time itself had fractured.

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