restless - Story 119168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s performance seemed to grate on him. He found himself picking at the canapés, mostly for something to do with his hands. Each strum of the guitar, each beat of the drums, seemed to amplify the feeling that coiled within him. He saw a flash of blue across the crowded room, and his stomach lurched. It was Sophie, his ex. He was flooded with conflicting emotions, each one vying for control. He felt the overwhelming compulsion to be elsewhere.

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:

`own`	0.485
`’`	0.363
`S`	0.333
`tìm`	0.316
`destination`	0.272

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.421
`заслу`	-0.297
`টুকু`	-0.211
`arada`	-0.204
`background`	-0.202