disoriented - Story 30594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," she breathed, the word a tiny, lost sound in the vastness of the bookshop. The rejection letter, a crisp white rectangle, felt like a branding iron. She had envisioned this moment, the triumphant release of her book. Instead, she felt unmoored. She wandered through the aisles, the spines of other authors' books leering at her. Each title a taunt. She bumped into a display, sending books tumbling.

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