disoriented - Story 30709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless chatter of the office, the ringing phones, the tapping keyboards – it all amplified the unsettling feeling within him. He was supposed to be working on the Johnson account, but the numbers blurred, the words on the page danced before his eyes.

"Hey, Liam, you've been staring at that for an hour," commented Emily, sitting in the cubicle next to him.

He jumped, his heart rate spiking. "Sorry. Just a little bogged down."

Emily chuckled. "Bogged down? Sounds like Camp Blue Ridge. Bogged down in the mud during the obstacle course."

Blue Ridge. A flood of images: the stinging nettles, the heavy scent of rain, the crushing weight of competition, and a particular scar on his knee. He felt his breath coming in short, shallow gasps.

He had to leave. Now.

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