Her stomach was in knots. The email’s words burned in her memory. She was unable to settle. She checked her phone again, hoping there was a mistake, a follow-up, an apology. Nothing.

She went to the living room and turned on the television, flipping through channels, but nothing held her attention. The volume was too loud. The shows felt silly and frivolous, a stark contrast to her own, very serious reality.

She paced the room, picking up items and putting them down. She felt compelled to make something, to distract her thoughts, but she was unable to focus.

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