disoriented - Story 30310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. John took a sip, grimacing. The information seemed to have poisoned his very existence, infecting everything he did, everything he thought. His chest felt constricted.

He looked around the empty conference room, at the polished table, the pristine white walls. He felt cut off from the world, isolated. The meeting was over, and it felt like everything was. He could almost feel the weight of the realization.

He opened the door and started walking. The office lights shone in his eyes. He didn’t know where he was going, but he needed to leave.

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