disoriented - Story 30021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in Clara's mouth. She set the mug down with a clatter, the sound echoing in the overly bright kitchen. Her sister, Emily, was at the table, humming as she arranged a collection of crayon drawings. "Look, Clara! Little Maya drew Mr. Snuggles again!"

Clara squinted at the drawing. A lopsided figure with mismatched buttons and a perpetually cheerful grin stared back. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She excused herself, murmuring something about needing air, and fled outside, heart hammering. The air felt thin, wrong.

The image of Mr. Snuggles, a creation of her own forgotten childhood, clung to the back of her eyes. She hadn't thought about him in decades. Now, his impossible smile was everywhere.

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