He was irritable, short-tempered with everyone. Even the dog. He couldn't shake the agitation that had been gripping him. He felt… coiled. He needed to use that energy, channel it into something. He needed to *do*.

He found himself wandering up the stairs, drawn by an almost magnetic force. The attic door loomed before him. He pulled it open. Sunlight streamed in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air.

He kicked through the piles of junk, looking for… something. Then he found it. A box containing a collection of tools. Hammers, screwdrivers, a rusty saw. He felt an immediate pull. He set about organizing the tools with a focused intensity he hadn't experienced in years. He felt the tightness in his chest start to ease as he worked.

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