disoriented - Story 30308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the turmoil swirling in Michael's mind. He drummed his fingers on the desk, the sound echoing in his ears. How could the company justify it? The numbers didn't add up.

He glanced at the picture of his kids on his desk. Their faces, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to pierce him with their open faces. He started to feel a burning in his eyes.

He stood up abruptly, knocking his chair back against the wall, and left. He couldn't be there, breathing the same air, with the thought in his head.

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