disoriented - Story 30992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam wandered the library stacks, the Dewey Decimal system suddenly a nonsensical jumble. The air felt thick, heavy. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He’d come here for research, for solace, but the words swam before his eyes.

He’d been scrolling the university’s admissions page, just out of morbid curiosity. Then he saw *it*. His college application essay, now a model for aspiring students, highlighted with glowing annotations. He’d poured his heart into it, revealed his deepest fears. Now, anyone could read them.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over a stack of books. The librarian shot him a look. Liam muttered an apology, but he couldn't stop the feeling of being completely unmoored.

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