disoriented - Story 30592 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the stark black text mocking him. He stood up abruptly, the chair scraping loudly against the wooden floor. Everything felt… skewed. His carefully crafted world, built on words and ambition, had crumbled. He reached for his coffee mug, but his hand missed, and the lukewarm liquid splashed across the table, mirroring the mess inside him. The silence of the apartment was deafening, amplified by the frantic thumping in his chest. “What now?” he whispered to the empty room.

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