I found the card lying on the doormat. I recognized the paper stock. It was the same as the invitations to my old university friend's wedding a few years ago. I felt the heat rising in my face. My breathing hitched. The walls of my house seemed to be closing in.

I stared at the card. A vague, pretty floral design, no words. I wanted to scream. I felt like I was suffocating.

I threw the card into the trash can. Then I retrieved it. Then I threw it into the trash again. This routine felt like a familiar compulsion. I paced, not knowing what to do with myself.

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