disoriented - Story 30337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on Leo’s phone. “The Rusty Spoon is closing :(”. He dropped his phone. He had to sit down right away. He felt the world spin. His stomach clenched. He'd never felt like this before. The food was nothing fancy, but the familiarity was everything. He had spent his childhood, and his adult life, in that restaurant. He closed his eyes and tried to picture the place. He couldn't. He couldn't focus on anything.

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