disoriented - Story 30417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked around him, a symphony of settling timbers and whispering drafts. Dusk was bleeding into night, and the shadows were lengthening. He didn’t know how he’d gotten here. He found the wallet on the mantelpiece.

He flipped it open, the money within reflecting the fading light. He felt a profound disorientation. The scent of dust and decay filled his nostrils. He felt a powerful urge to flee, to escape this… this place. But where to? He didn't know the first thing about this house. The silence of the house pressed in around him, heavy and suffocating.

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