The sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John, normally meticulous, found himself staring out at the vibrant green of the park across the street. He showed the trainee, a young man named Kevin, how to process customer orders, his movements rushed and imprecise. He felt a tight coil of tension in his chest, a sense of being confined. He gripped the edge of the desk, his knuckles white. "Now, you try," he said, the words clipped and sharp.

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