disoriented - Story 30967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt vast, the trees towering and menacing. Liam sat on a bench, the list trembling in his hand. The words swam before his eyes. "See the Taj Mahal." "Learn to paint." "Find happiness."

He felt the sudden, frantic need to flee. The air pressed down on him, thick and heavy. His chest tightened, making it hard to breathe. He looked around, the faces of passersby all blurred and indistinct.

He blinked hard, struggling to focus. He closed his eyes, then opened them again. The world refused to come into focus. How could he not have known?

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