The meeting dragged on, each platitude from the department head a fresh stab of irritation. Sarah fidgeted in her chair, unable to focus. She knew about the pay gap, knew it affected her directly, and the feeling that she was being exploited was overwhelming.

She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingers and feet. The words coming out of the department head's mouth seemed increasingly absurd, a meaningless stream of corporate jargon. She had to get out.

She wanted to rip off her professional attire. She was going to quit. No. She needed to leave, and she needed to do it soon.

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