disoriented - Story 30938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He examined the roses, each velvety petal perfect. He hadn’t bought them. He couldn't remember *buying* anything recently. The simple act of looking at the flowers felt like scaling a mountain of uncertainty.

He went to the fridge and opened it. Empty. He stared at it for a long moment, a strange emptiness echoing the one he felt inside. He felt as if his foundations were crumbling.

He slowly closed the door, a heavy weight pressing down on him. The silence was deafening, the air thick with unspoken questions. He ran a hand over his face. When had he last slept?

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