It was as if an electrical current was running beneath Ethan's skin. He felt a constant, nagging pressure behind his eyes, a relentless urge to do… something. He’d flipped through channels on the TV, unable to focus on a single program. He'd paced the length of his living room, the wood floors creaking in protest. He went outside, unable to stand his own company any longer.

A tow truck had been there. The driveway was deserted. The metallic gleam of his old jeep was replaced by an empty space. A wave of frustration washed over him. He wanted to scream.

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