disoriented - Story 30254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, like someone had turned down the volume. Liam sat frozen in his chair, staring at the screen. His carefully crafted analysis of climate change was now bearing someone else's name, "Arthur Finch." He rubbed his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes. He felt a profound sense of wrongness, a fundamental disruption of his sense of self. He felt like a stranger in his own life.

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