disoriented - Story 30996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see?” Mark’s voice crackled through the phone, a jumble of excitement and something else. “Your essay’s up!” Mark, his best friend, was also the only person who knew the truth about the essay’s subject. He felt it in his stomach, the ice-cold grip that was only growing.

He had been staring blankly at the ceiling of his dorm room. He immediately closed his laptop. He wanted to throw up. He wanted to run.

He muttered a weak response, feeling the walls of the room slowly closing in. He dropped the phone, and his chest felt very tight.

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