disoriented - Story 30038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled along the familiar route, but nothing looked the same. She stared out the window, at the passing streets, at the lives of the strangers on the sidewalk. She clutched the book to her chest, feeling a disconnect between the person it described and who she understood herself to be. The book had filled in gaps. Had created narratives where she remembered only fragmented moments. Her breath hitched. The world seemed to wobble. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to ground herself.

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