disoriented - Story 30763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. One moment, she’d been humming a tuneless melody, anticipating the sight of her childhood silver birch. The next, a gaping void stared back at her. The air crackled with a strange energy, the silence broken only by the frantic hammering of her own heart. She swayed slightly, her hand flying to her mouth. Everything felt…unconnected. She closed her eyes, trying to re-establish some grounding, but the image of the felled tree continued to flash behind her eyelids.

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