disoriented - Story 30768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys slipped from her grasp, clattering onto the pavement. The beloved cherry tree, the first thing she'd planted, was gone. The simple act of breathing became difficult. Her gaze darted from side to side, as though searching for a lost object. Everything seemed to have lost its meaning. She stood frozen, paralyzed. She felt as though she'd stepped into a dream from which there was no awakening. The world seemed to be fading around her.

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