disoriented - Story 30666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to sit down, sinking against the wall. His legs felt like lead. Each labored breath felt like a monumental effort. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to make the spinning stop. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to pulse, matching the rhythm of his pounding heart.

He forgot what he was supposed to be doing, forgot the project he’d been working on all week. A sense of unease settled upon him, a feeling that something wasn't quite right.

He opened his eyes, and with a voice he didn't recognise, asked, "Can you see the numbers?"

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