The speeches seemed to drag on forever. He kept shifting in his seat, his leg bouncing almost imperceptibly. He felt a deep, pervasive dissatisfaction. Everything was too bright, too loud, too cheerful. The forced gaiety of the occasion made his skin crawl. Then, he saw Olivia. His ex. Across the room, her smile was as radiant as ever, and he felt a cold wave of something he didn’t want to feel. He excused himself, promising to be right back, and walked swiftly towards the exit.

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