disoriented - Story 30279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like walking into a party he hadn't been invited to. The atmosphere in the new office was jubilant, the walls adorned with bright posters and quirky decorations. Everything was different from his old office, so different it felt…wrong.

He found himself unconsciously tugging at his tie, a gesture of discomfort he couldn't control. He kept losing his train of thought, his mind wandering to the familiar comforts he had left behind.

He tried to smile, but it felt forced, unnatural. He bumped into someone, spilling coffee. The apology felt hollow, the words failing to capture the unease that churned within. He felt an urge to run, to escape the noise, the color, the strangeness.

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