disoriented - Story 30060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day was a washed-out watercolor, all the colors blended and indistinct. He felt like he was caught in a current, pulled along without control. He walked into the pawn shop, not knowing why. The air inside felt thick, stagnant.

The ring. His gaze locked onto it, and his heart thumped in his chest. A sudden rush of feelings flooded him - grief, confusion, something akin to betrayal. His grandmother’s engagement ring. How could it be here?

He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He felt a surge of adrenaline. He needed to touch it, to understand. He pointed, his throat constricted. “I… I want to know about that one.” He felt a primal urge to scream, to lash out, to make the world 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:

`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