disoriented - Story 30555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was out of focus. He sat on the sofa, the cushions pressing into his back, and stared at the ceiling. The ceiling fan blades spun slowly, a hypnotic circle that seemed to mock the chaos in his head. "A bird," Eliza was saying, her tone a mixture of excitement and… something else he couldn't quite name.

He didn't want a bird. He wanted… what? He wasn't sure. He wanted the pressure to stop, the feeling of being pulled in different directions. He wanted the world to slow down, to still. He pressed his palms against his eyes, trying to force the spinning to cease. The image of a cage, small and confining, filled his mind.

He let his hands drop, his gaze drifting back to the fan. "I need… time," he mumbled, the words lost in the hum of the machine.

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