disoriented - Story 30318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was quiet, as always. The familiar route, the same radio station playing softly in the background. She was enjoying the peace, and then he spoke. In the other language. She didn't expect it, and she flinched. The simple sentence, a comment about the traffic, was jarring.

She stared straight ahead, gripping the steering wheel. The car felt different, suddenly. She didn't know what to say. The world shifted. The edges of her vision blurred slightly.

When he spoke again, she couldn't bring herself to answer. She just continued driving, the familiar road now feeling like a labyrinth. Each turn, each landmark, seemed to mock her.

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