disoriented - Story 30425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gold lettering on the black card – *Evergreen High, Class of '09 – 15 Year Reunion* – seemed to taunt him. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. He hadn't aged, right? Hadn't aged that much, surely. He didn't even recognize the person looking back at him from the mirror this morning.

He reread the details. A fancy hotel. Dinner, drinks, dancing. He closed his eyes. The room swayed slightly. He felt a pressure in his temples, a dull ache that intensified with each passing second. He tried to summon a memory of his high school self, but only a blank canvas stared back.

He fumbled for his phone, and wanted to call someone. He needed someone, but who? He felt alone, adrift in a sea of forgotten faces and unfamiliar names.

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