The air in David's small studio apartment felt thick and heavy. He kept rotating in his chair, facing the window then back at his desk, but was unable to stay focused. He’d poured his heart and soul into the graphic design portfolio, a testament to his creative ambition. The opportunity to work at the design firm was everything he desired. And now, Michael, his friend, was also in the running.

He slammed his hands down on the desk, the sudden movement startling him. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his fingers. A restlessness, a sense of something building, filled him. Grabbing his sketchbook, he went out for a walk, hoping that the movement would quiet his mind.

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