disoriented - Story 30869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beautifully carved wooden flute rested on his nightstand, the polished wood reflecting the dim light of his room. He had no memory of seeing it before. A knot of tension formed in his stomach. His breath quickened.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The shadows in the corners of his room seemed to deepen, to take on menacing shapes. He pulled the covers over his head, trying to shut out the world, to escape the creeping dread that was seizing him.

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