disoriented - Story 30347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cacophony of yard sale chatter was a relentless assault. The sounds crashed around Leo, making it difficult to focus. He was moving, he was sure. But it felt more like the world was spinning around him. He came to a halt. The bear. A brown, plush bear, its arm torn.

He felt an incredible urge to…protect it? He didn’t understand. He felt a deep ache within him. The world was distorted, everything felt off-kilter.

He reached out. The bear was rough to the touch. He heard a voice asking a price, but it was coming from so far away. He didn't respond. He had to keep the bear safe. He turned, stumbling. He needed to find somewhere quiet. He just needed to.

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