disoriented - Story 30775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of the Californian sun beat down on Maya’s back as she stood beside her brother, David. He’d inherited the beachfront property, the thriving surf shop, the glamorous lifestyle. Maya watched as he accepted the keys, a triumphant smile plastered on his face. Then, the lawyer beckoned her to a dusty storage shed. Inside, she found a single, battered guitar and a worn leather-bound journal. The pages were filled with music, with lyrics that spoke of longing and a life lived on the road. A strange emptiness settled in her stomach.

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