It had been a week, and the news still stung. He was unable to sit still. He kept going over the email in his head. His leg shook incessantly. He felt like his heart was trying to escape his chest.

He wandered into the kitchen, opening the fridge, then shutting it again. He paced back and forth, from the window to the door. He picked up his phone, then put it back down, unable to bring himself to call anyone.

He slammed his hand against the counter, then immediately regretted it. He decided to go for a run, anything to stop the churning inside.

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:
own0.485
0.363
S0.333
tìm0.316
destination0.272
Suppressed:
B-0.421
заслу-0.297
টুকু-0.211
arada-0.204
background-0.202