disoriented - Story 30197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s office felt smaller than usual. The diplomas on the wall seemed to leer at him. James shifted from one foot to the other, unable to meet the principal’s gaze. Mrs. Harding. His own primary school principal. Now, his daughter’s. He felt like a boy again, small and insignificant.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he’d repeated countless times as a child. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating. He wanted to blurt out the entire truth, confess to everything.

"So," the principal began, her voice unusually loud in his ears. "I believe you're familiar with Mrs. Harding?" James merely nodded, his throat constricted, unable to utter a sound. He felt a sudden, irrational desire to burst into tears.

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