disoriented - Story 30062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, the crisp official paper suddenly feeling heavy, like a lead weight in his hand. Everything seemed muted, the usual cacophony of the campus quad softened to a dull hum. He took a step, then another, aimlessly wandering away from the student center, his feet dragging. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream, to smash something, but instead, he just kept walking, each stride a reluctant shuffle into a future he hadn't planned for.

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