restless - Story 119349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chatter of the crowd grated on Mark's nerves. He felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling he couldn’t ignore. He felt an intense need to *move*, to *flee* the oppressive atmosphere of the yard sale. His hands were clammy.

He wanted to scream.

He wandered the tables, and he felt his resolve breaking.

Then, he saw it. A small, stuffed bear. Its fur was worn. It was exactly like the one he had as a child. He picked it up. And in that moment, he felt a flicker of something close to peace.

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