disoriented - Story 30596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, feeling detached, adrift in the small, cramped space of his studio apartment. The ceiling fan whirred, each rotation a slow, agonizing loop. He rose, but his legs felt like jelly. He needed to *do* something. He paced, then stopped. He picked up his pen, then put it down. His focus, once laser-like, was now a fractured thing, scattering in all directions. He wanted to scream.

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