disoriented - Story 30364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked among bills and junk mail, its festive message jarring. "Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day!" The handwriting was neat, almost too perfect. He felt a sharp jab of confusion. Today? His birthday? He couldn't remember. He walked out of his yard, and immediately forgot why he was there.

The world seemed to spin slightly as he looked at the houses on his street. They all looked the same. The same lawns, the same doors. He wasn't sure which house was his. He gripped the card, his knuckles white.

He wandered down the street, each step growing more unsure. The sun beat down on him, and he felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. The card, his only anchor, felt like a burning coal in his grip. Where was he going? Where did he live?

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