disoriented - Story 30761 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows, but they didn’t seem to anchor her. She’d expected the familiar rush of childhood memories, a wave of nostalgia. Instead, there was this… emptiness. Where the old oak had stood, now there was only a raw stump, its rings exposed like a violated secret. Her legs felt unreliable, threatening to buckle beneath her. She reached out, touching the rough wood, her fingers tracing the jagged edge. A disbelieving whisper escaped her lips: “No…”

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