disoriented - Story 30345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt as though he had woken up mid-dream. He looked around the yard sale and it was a blur of colors and sounds. The bright, gaudy colors of the items on display hurt his eyes. He stopped. A tattered bear with a mismatched bow tie sat on a blanket. A pressure built behind his eyes.

He stepped closer, drawn in. He knew this bear. Didn't he? He picked it up, and the world seemed to warp. A cold sweat erupted on his skin. He needed to be… somewhere else. Any other place.

He put the bear down, and then picked it up again. He couldn't seem to stop himself.

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