disoriented - Story 30165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s music pounded against Ethan’s chest, a rhythm out of sync with his own erratic heartbeat. He felt adrift, lost in the swirling mass of bodies. He'd been looking forward to this wedding, a chance to unwind, but now… The air felt thin, his lungs struggling to find purchase. He found himself avoiding eye contact, even with his friends. He couldn’t quite remember what he'd said to them just moments ago. He was trapped in a funhouse mirror, everything distorted and unfamiliar. The punch bowl beckoned, a siren's call to oblivion.

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