disoriented - Story 30929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, but the road ahead seemed to stretch into infinity, an endless, monotonous grey. The car felt heavy, the steering wheel an unfamiliar thing. He slowed the vehicle, his heart pounding in his chest. Where was he going? He couldn’t recall. The landmarks flickered in and out of focus.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating as it came to a halt. He switched off the engine and leaned his head against the steering wheel. The world outside the car was a distorted echo of his own mind. He was lost.

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