The vending machine wouldn't accept Emily's dollar bill. She jiggled it, then swore softly under her breath. Everything was annoying her today, everything. Even the bland, over-salted chips she craved.

The realization had hit her like a punch to the gut: Jason, a recent hire with almost no experience, was making significantly more than her. Her own promotion had been promised for months, but never materialized. She slammed her fist against the machine.

Her stomach felt hollow. She wanted to scream. She left the machine and walked toward the door.

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