disoriented - Story 30926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, can you read this?” The words on the page blurred. He blinked, but the letters remained blurry. He rubbed his eyes, but the words remained illegible. His daughter’s drawing, normally a source of immense joy, now seemed just like random splashes of colour.

He squinted, trying to focus, but his vision remained unfocused. It felt like everything was wrong. His daughter’s expression shifted from excitement to concern.

“What’s wrong, Daddy?” she asked. He was utterly unable to answer.

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