disoriented - Story 30429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the words blurring before his eyes. *Central City High, Class of '84 - 40 Year Reunion.* Forty years. He felt a tremor run through him, a physical manifestation of the mental fog that had enveloped him. He sank into his chair, the world tilting slightly.

He closed his eyes, trying to focus, but all he could see were swirling colors and fragmented images. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. What had he done? Who was he now? He felt a strong desire to scream.

He picked up the phone, wanting to make a call. Who did he know anymore? The number he wanted to call didn't seem to make sense to him.

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