disoriented - Story 30228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight of the study felt harsh on her eyes. She’d always thought her mother was uncomplicated. She picked up a box, the contents unknown. She felt as though she was looking at the world through a cracked lens. Inside were years worth of school assignments.

She felt a strange disconnect, like watching a movie of her own life that she had never seen before. A science project on the solar system – the glue still fresh, the construction paper vibrant. The world shifted. The room seemed to spin. She felt utterly lost.

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