disoriented - Story 30625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was in her DMs: *Hey, saw you at the coffee shop yesterday! - Mr. Olsen.* Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was sitting in the library, surrounded by the usual quiet hum of students studying, but it felt like the world was spinning.

She felt like she was trapped in a dream, one where the familiar rules no longer applied. She reread the message, the words now blurring before her eyes. The weight of his gaze, even if it was just through a phone, felt heavy. She fumbled with the pages of her textbook, not retaining a single word. She slammed the book shut and rushed out.

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