disoriented - Story 30969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the apartment was suffocating. He sat at the kitchen table, the list spread out before him, each word a piercing accusation. "Learn to sail." "Run a marathon." "Fall in love."

He felt a strange lightness in his limbs, as if he were floating. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt disconnected, as if watching a movie of his own life.

He pushed the list away, the paper rustling in the stillness. He looked out the window, at the bustling city below, and felt utterly alone.

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