disoriented - Story 30519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the weight room was broken only by the rhythmic clang of weights, but it felt deafening to Emily. Coach Reynolds’s verdict was a cold, hard stone in the pit of her stomach. The metal and the machines, which usually gave her a sense of purpose, were now intimidating.

Her muscles ached, but she was unable to push herself further. She sat on the bench, her hands resting in her lap, feeling numb. She stared at the barbells, which were now not quite right, their purpose unclear.

She closed her eyes, trying to focus, but all she saw was Coach Reynolds’ face. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she couldn't.

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