disoriented - Story 30788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pictures of the rooms. Each room felt like a stranger's territory. It was all wrong, every detail. He felt as though he was caught in a funhouse, everything warped and strange.

He got up and started pacing. The carpet felt unfamiliar beneath his feet. He felt his pulse quicken as the feeling intensified, making it hard to think. He couldn’t seem to grasp the thread of his thoughts.

He grabbed a picture frame from the mantelpiece – a photo of himself. But the face staring back was blurred, a ghost of someone he used to be. He stared at it for a long moment, lost.

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