disoriented - Story 30760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence when the mailman knocked. The letter, thin and unassuming, felt like a thunderclap in his hand. He’d built a life on order, on control. The words on the page, however, threatened the foundations. His carefully constructed routine felt shattered. He felt a pressure in his chest, a tightness that made it hard to breathe. He stared at the world, and it seemed to distort. The shapes had become strange, the sounds unfamiliar. He wished the world would simply disappear.

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