disoriented - Story 30618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of perfume and aftershave, a heady combination that felt both inviting and suffocating. He swayed slightly as he walked, his feet feeling strangely disconnected from the ground. He couldn't quite place the feeling that kept nagging at him. Like something was wrong, something was missing.

He clutched the microphone tightly, the cold metal a small point of reality in the swirling chaos. He tried to focus on his parents' faces, to remember the happy moments, the shared laughter. But the memories flickered like old film, fragmented and incomplete. He opened his mouth, and a sound emerged – a strangled, almost animalistic cry.

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