disoriented - Story 30244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was a blur of polished wood and hushed tones. David sat rigid in the plush armchair, the lawyer's words a constant, unsettling drone. The records. Switched. Now he had a different heart condition, a different prognosis, all based on a stranger's medical history.

He drummed his fingers on his knee, a rapid, erratic rhythm. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the very oxygen was contaminated. His gaze darted around the room, from the diplomas on the wall to the framed photographs of the lawyer’s family. They seemed to mock him with their normalcy.

"So, legally speaking…" the lawyer began, but David cut him off with a sharp, "Just tell me what I have to *do*." His voice was harsh, brittle, betraying the turmoil he was fighting to contain.

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