disoriented - Story 30367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day!” The card's message was cheerful and impersonal, yet something about it filled her with a sense of dread. She clutched it tightly, her knuckles white. She had no recollection of her birthday.

She locked the door to her apartment. The familiar clicking of the lock was supposed to be comforting, but now it only amplified her unease. The shadows in the hallway seemed to lengthen, to twist, to take on new and unsettling shapes. She walked slowly, each step feeling heavy and uncertain.

She found herself in her bedroom. She looked at her closet, at the clothes she had to wear. She saw a necklace on the table and picked it up. She didn't recognize it. Everything was strange.

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