disoriented - Story 30756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad?” The voice, small and hesitant, pulled him back from the precipice. He blinked, the words on the letter blurring before his eyes. His daughter, Lily, stood in the doorway, her brow furrowed with concern. He felt a wave of dizziness, and he reached out, grasping for something solid. The room seemed to shift, the walls tilting inwards. He had forgotten, completely. The letter had brought it all back. He couldn't quite see Lily, but he could hear her. The only thing he could do was breathe.

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