disoriented - Story 30606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be right,” Emily muttered, her voice barely a whisper. The photo in her hands depicted her mother, years younger, standing on a beach. In the picture, she was kissing a man who was not her father. Everything she thought she knew was crumbling around her.

She had always believed her parents had a storybook romance. The family narrative was one of unwavering devotion, of two souls destined for each other. Now, this photograph, a single, silent image, was changing everything.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach. She needed to understand why her mother had kept this secret, what other truths might be hidden. She needed to sit down, the world feeling unstable under her feet. She leaned back against the dusty wall, unable to tear her eyes away from the photo.

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