disoriented - Story 30818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office building loomed, a concrete monolith against the setting sun. Each step felt like wading through thick mud. He felt unsteady, unsure of anything.

He'd scrolled through online profiles, searching for help. Finally, he clicked on the name.

"Dr. Bethany Hayes, LCSW." His blood ran cold. Bethany Hayes, the girl who had always seemed to know his secrets, who had always used his fears against him.

He felt his vision narrow, the world contracting around him. This couldn't be. This wasn't real.

He walked to the door.

"Come in, John," she said from inside.

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