disoriented - Story 30662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights cast long, dancing shadows that played tricks on John's eyes. He swayed slightly, gripping the handrail with white knuckles. He kept repeating the same phrase, “We'll be out soon, we'll be out soon,” even though the words felt hollow and empty.

His mouth felt dry, and he kept licking his lips. He vaguely remembered a meeting, a crucial presentation. Was it today? Had he even finished it? The details swam in his head, elusive as smoke.

He stared at his reflection in the mirrored panel, a stranger staring back. His tie was askew, his normally crisp suit rumpled. Who was that person?

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