disoriented - Story 30907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt unusually long. I stared out the window, watching the familiar landscape of my town whiz by, but it all seemed… distorted. The familiar buildings, the bustling streets, the people… everything was different. Wrong.

My hands felt numb. My stomach churned. The news of the university's closure echoed in my mind, a relentless drumbeat. I pulled the hood of my jacket over my head, retreating into myself.

The bus rattled to a stop, and I got off, the cool air hitting my face. I walked towards my house, each step feeling heavy, like I was wading through quicksand. The door suddenly felt like a barrier between the world and her new reality.

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