disoriented - Story 30658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling train station was a symphony of noise, a cacophony of announcements and chatter. He felt like he was drowning in the chaos. He checked his phone. "Can you pick it up on your way home? Don't forget." He felt a lurch in his stomach. Pick what up? He had no idea what *it* was, and the thought was terrifying. He gripped the strap of his bag, his knuckles white, and watched the trains pass, feeling a profound sense of isolation.

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