disoriented - Story 30365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was plain white, with a simple, childlike drawing of a present. The words "Happy Birthday!" were printed in a cheerful font. The message felt… wrong. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. Her breath grew shallow.

Her apartment felt unfamiliar. She’d walked in and now everything seemed off-kilter. She stared at a photograph on the wall, a smiling face she didn’t recognize. Or did she? Her reflection in the glass of the picture seemed distorted.

She sank to the floor, the card falling from her grasp. She reached for it, then changed her mind. She closed her eyes, trying to focus, trying to remember something, anything. Nothing.

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