restless - Story 119191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique clock in the hallway seemed to taunt Eleanor. Its pendulum swung with maddening slowness, each tick an accusation of wasted time. She checked the clock again, for the fifth time in as many minutes. Waiting for her daughter, Lily, felt like wading through molasses.

When Lily bounded through the door, backpack askew, Eleanor found herself blurting, "How was school?" with an intensity she hadn't intended.

"Fine," Lily replied, already halfway to the kitchen. "Mrs. Peterson is... okay, I guess."

Eleanor froze, a strange prickle crawling up her spine. "Mrs. Peterson? Is that… the Mrs. Peterson?" Her mouth felt dry, and she had the sudden urge to pace.

Lily shrugged, grabbing a juice box. "Yeah. Tall, kinda wrinkly. You know."

Eleanor felt a sudden need to clean, to rearrange, to *do* something. The feeling surged through her, a palpable pressure in her chest.

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