disoriented - Story 30958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. "Local man discovers buried time capsule…" He wasn't paying attention until he saw the image of the box, identical to one he kept in the shed.

His hand flew to his throat. He felt the blood drain from his face. A cold dread washed over him. He was losing his grip.

He stumbled to the shed. There it was, the twin. He grabbed it, throwing it open. The contents were the same. Why? He looked around frantically, his eyes darting from object to object.

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