disoriented - Story 30994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. *Congratulations! Your essay is featured...* Daniel, sprawled on his couch, felt the blood drain from his face. His stomach churned. He reread the words. His college application essay, the one he’d poured his soul into, was now a model of brilliance.

He felt a sudden need for air, fumbling for the window. He pushed it open, inhaling a deep breath. His head spun. The sun was too bright, the world too loud.

He kept seeing his words, those personal, vulnerable words, flashing across his inner eye. He thought he might be ill.

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