disoriented - Story 30774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s voice droned on, a monotonous buzz in Elias' ears. Across from him, his sister, Amelia, beamed, already making plans. “The vineyards, the chateau, the entire wine empire… it’s all mine.” The lawyer shuffled papers. Elias felt a wave of nausea. He was presented with a small, wooden crate. Inside, meticulously wrapped in tissue paper, was a collection of antique maps. Each one charted a different, forgotten corner of the world. He ran a hand through his hair, a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee.

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