disoriented - Story 30663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Do you know what time it is?" Emily asked, her voice cracking slightly. She kept checking her watch, even though it was useless. The seconds seemed to stretch into an eternity.

Across from her, David was fiddling with his tie, pulling at it with nervous energy. The enclosed space seemed to be growing smaller with each passing minute. Emily's breath hitched, feeling a tightness in her chest.

She felt a sudden urge to pace, but the confines of the elevator made it impossible. Where was she supposed to be? She couldn't focus; the world felt somehow wrong. A wave of nausea washed over her.

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