The office felt suffocating. Mark tapped his pen against his desk, a staccato rhythm that annoyed his colleagues. He felt a need to break free, a need to get out of the box.

The headline was the source of his current state: "Marco's, To Close Next Month." He'd been getting his lunch there since he moved to the city. The familiarity, the consistency, the friendly banter with Marco himself - all gone.

He abruptly stood up and strode over to the water cooler, refilling his cup three times in quick succession. He needed a distraction, something to take the edge off.

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