disoriented - Story 30330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of garlic and onions, usually a comfort, now felt cloying. Chef Marie slumped onto a stool, the review clutched in her hand. The critic had declared her restaurant "pretentious and overpriced." She felt a wave of nausea.

She closed her eyes, trying to breathe deeply, but the air felt thin and unsatisfying. The kitchen, her life's work, suddenly felt alien and hostile. She felt the weight of the accusations pressing down on her.

She opened her eyes, her vision blurred. She looked around the kitchen, her gaze lingering on each pot, each pan, each utensil. Everything felt out of focus, like she was seeing the world through a thick pane of glass. She no longer knew which way was up.

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