restless - Story 119067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in her hand. Emily crumpled it into a ball, then immediately smoothed it out, smoothing it out again and again. Her throat felt tight. She needed to break free of the suffocating feeling.

She opened the closet, pulling out every piece of clothing, and throwing them onto the bed. She began trying on outfits, changing her appearance, but none of them felt right. The act was a frenzied attempt to escape the confines of her disappointment.

She kicked off her shoes and paced the room, running her hands through her hair. The walls seemed to be closing in, and she needed to be out, moving, doing anything.

Emotion: restless

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -0.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.25

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:

`own`	0.485
`’`	0.363
`S`	0.333
`tìm`	0.316
`destination`	0.272

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.421
`заслу`	-0.297
`টুকু`	-0.211
`arada`	-0.204
`background`	-0.202