disoriented - Story 30679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His normally neat hair was a mess, his eyes wide and unblinking. The news about Professor Lee had robbed him of any ability to focus. He splashed cold water on his face, but it did nothing to bring him back. His hands felt clumsy, his movements jerky. He needed to get a grip. He had to think. But his mind was a jumbled mess, a collection of disconnected thoughts and fears.

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