disoriented - Story 30305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt slightly tilted, as if a rogue hand had subtly shifted everything out of alignment. I stared at the email, the words blurring. My chest felt tight, constricted. A hot flush spread across my face. It couldn't be true, could it?

My hands were shaking as I reached for my phone. I needed to talk to someone, but who? My wife? My best friend? The HR department? The idea was a jumble in my head, a confused string of thoughts.

I took a deep breath. The office air felt thick, stale. I walked to the window and stared at the park outside. It looked like any other day. And I felt anything but.

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