The piano keys stared at Emily from across the living room, their blank surface promising nothing. Her fingers itched, but she couldn't bring herself to sit at the bench. The orchestra had chosen another violinist, one with a more polished technique. Now, the music in her head had gone silent, replaced by a hollow echo. She moved to the window, the world outside a blur of vibrant colours. She grabbed a vase and threw it against the wall, the shattering sound a momentary solace.

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