disoriented - Story 30689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garage was filled with the metallic scent of polish and gasoline. He stood awkwardly, watching his son, Jake, tinker with the vintage car, his hands moving with practiced ease. This was his passion, once, now it felt like watching someone else live his life. He found himself searching for solid ground.

His stomach clenched, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He felt a deep, unsettling disconnect, as if he were separated from his body. The world around him seemed to lose its clarity, the edges softening, the colours bleeding together. He watched Jake. Jake. Who was that?

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