disoriented - Story 30576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure you’re okay?” Mark’s wife, Sarah, asked, her voice laced with concern. They were at a party, a celebration for his new job. He’d just bumped into a woman who claimed to know him from childhood. He couldn’t shake the feeling, a persistent and nagging doubt, gnawing at the edge of his thoughts. The woman kept recounting stories, anecdotes from their youth, but something felt wrong. His memory was a jumbled mess, a chaotic landscape of disjointed images and forgotten faces. He couldn't place her, couldn't match the stories to any real experiences. He felt a sudden disconnect from the present moment, as if he were observing everything through a distorted lens.

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