disoriented - Story 30540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the backpack felt heavier than usual on Kevin's shoulders as he walked home. The news hung in the air, a dark cloud, threatening to unleash a downpour. The familiar streets, once a source of comfort and familiarity, seemed to stretch out endlessly, devoid of meaning. He found himself staring at the faces of strangers, wondering if any of them knew, if they could sense the turmoil churning inside him. He clenched his fists, the blood draining from his knuckles. He suddenly wanted to be invisible. He wanted to scream.

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