The silence of the house pressed down on her. She'd been staring at the computer screen for hours, the words in the essay blurring before her eyes. The house felt suffocating. She felt this way often, especially when facing a new writing assignment.

A ping signaled a new message from "BookwormBuddy." "Hey! Anyone at the library? I'm feeling chatty. Bored to tears."

A thrill shot through her. She needed to escape the confines of her studies. It was a compulsion now. She gathered her backpack and phone, the weight of them feeling strange but reassuring as she walked out the door and started toward the public library.

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