disoriented - Story 30987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a text message from a friend. She read it while she was doing laundry. She didn't finish. The familiar rumble of the washing machine suddenly sounded deafening. The building across the street looked different, taller, somehow more menacing.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She gripped the edge of the dryer to steady herself. Her vision flickered. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape. She gathered her things, almost forgetting the wet clothes she'd left in the machine. She didn't know where she was going, she just knew she couldn't stay.

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