disoriented - Story 30993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's glossy brochure felt slick and alien in Maya’s hands. The campus, usually a source of comfort, appeared foreign, its familiar pathways now a labyrinth. She had been excitedly showing it to her little sister, describing the dorms and classrooms.

Then, she'd noticed the link to "Successful Application Essays." A thrill of pride, followed by a dizzying drop. There it was, her story, her painstakingly crafted prose, now public. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears.

Her sister, oblivious, asked, "Can I have a cookie?" Maya simply nodded, unable to speak. She felt a pull, a gravitational anomaly in her chest. Everything tilted.

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