restless - Story 119328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chef stared at his reflection in the greasy kitchen window, the damning review like a brand on his forehead. He felt boxed in, constricted. He wanted to break something, to scream. Instead, he started dismantling the dishwashing machine, screw by screw, bolt by bolt. The rhythmic clanging of metal against metal provided a strange, unwelcome satisfaction. He was lost in the work, the precise, focused chaos, the simple act of *doing*.

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