disoriented - Story 30570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the party dress felt heavy on her shoulders. She should be at her friend, Emma's, themed costume party. But today… today was her birthday. She’d always wanted to go to a museum.

She looked at her reflection, and the image felt detached. Was this really her? This person, dressed for a party she didn't want to attend, while the museum seemed like a distant dream. She felt a strange tightness in her chest, a feeling of suffocation.

She took a shaky breath, the air filling her lungs and leaving her with an odd sensation. The party, the music, the crowd – it was all overwhelming. She felt a strong urge to simply disappear. And so, she did.

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