He was here because he needed help. He didn't expect *him*. The name on the door read "Dr. Michael Carter." Michael Carter, the boy who used to shove him into lockers. He stared at the name, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

He entered the office, his legs heavy. Michael Carter, now a therapist, looked up. He seemed composed, serene. The audacity of it all. He sat down, the chair suddenly feeling incredibly uncomfortable. He felt the blood drain from his face and a strange tingling sensation creep over him. He opened his mouth, but no words came out.

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