disoriented - Story 30438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, bright and garish, was shoved into his hand as he walked down the street. “Try the New ‘Seraphina’s Sweet Treat’! The Best Ice Cream in Town!” He felt a shiver crawl down his spine. The name. The recipe. Everything.

He hurried to the ice cream parlor, his heart pounding against his ribs. The shop was packed, people lined up for the creamy concoction. He spotted a scoop of his creation, the one he had spent countless hours crafting.

He walked to the front of the line, his throat tight, his mouth dry. He could feel the eyes of the line on him, waiting for his turn. But he couldn't speak. He stepped back, the flyer clutched tightly in his hand. He turned and ran, the aroma of his stolen creation following 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