disoriented - Story 30446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the image unfamiliar, a stranger. His gaze darted around the room, searching for something, a clue, a sign. The air in the cramped dorm felt thin, difficult to breathe. He’d discovered his journal in the trash can, ripped and crumpled. His roommate, Alex, was sitting on his bed, scrolling through his phone. He started rambling about a film he'd just watched, and he was using terms that she'd used in her journal. The simple act of breathing became a struggle.

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