The session was over. She was out in the lobby, already halfway down the hall, before the realization struck. The man she'd just poured her heart out to, the therapist who'd offered such insightful advice? It was Gary. Gary, the boy who had tripped her and laughed when she fell at the school dance.

She stopped dead, a strange tingling spreading through her limbs. She felt a desperate need to turn back, to confront him, to demand an explanation. But her feet were planted to the ground, and a wave of nausea washed over her. The irony of the situation was almost too much to bear.

Emotion: surprised

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -0.58 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion surprised. 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 surprised stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the surprised emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the surprised vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
que0.495
de0.447
la0.431
l0.323
😳0.296
Suppressed:
每天-0.269
cheerfully-0.249
ing-0.238
alleviate-0.224
gladly-0.219