disoriented - Story 30559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of coffee, usually a comfort, churned her stomach. She sat at the kitchen table, watching Liam meticulously arrange the sugar packets. He’d been talking for an hour about the benefits of owning a dog. She couldn't focus.

She felt like she was wading through treacle. Every thought, every action, required immense effort. The ticking of the clock echoed in her head. The image of a dog, shedding hair and needing attention, filled her with a sense of dread.

She pushed the mug of coffee away, the bitter aroma making her feel ill. "I… I can't even think straight," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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