disoriented - Story 30833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted on its axis. Sarah leaned against the bathroom sink, the damp tile cool against her forehead. The paper – a printout from a bank website – felt slick and clammy in her hand. A separate savings account, one John hadn't mentioned. Not a whisper.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her ears. She gripped the sink, feeling the porcelain press into her knuckles. She needed air.

The scent of her perfume, a fragrance she usually loved, suddenly nauseated her. She stumbled out of the bathroom, her legs feeling like jelly. The house, usually a comforting sanctuary, now felt like a labyrinth.

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