disoriented - Story 30712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the official-looking envelope, its stark white mocking him. He’d forgotten to pay rent. Again. His stomach churned. It felt like he’d been yanked from a deep sleep, thrown into the harsh glare of reality. The room tilted.

He ran a hand through his tangled hair, the strands catching on something he didn't recognise. It was a new feeling, the sensation of disarray and a lack of grounding. He felt a need to do something, anything, to break this new feeling.

He needed coffee. No, food. He hadn’t eaten. He fumbled for his keys, but couldn't find them. Where had he left them? He needed to get out, he felt like the air was too heavy. The walls seemed to be closing in, and he felt a cold dread creep into him.

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