The house seemed to shrink around him, the walls closing in. Ethan felt the familiar tension building in his shoulders and neck. He clutched his hands into fists and then released them. His own quiet night in, surrounded by books and a fire, was now eclipsed by the allure of Liam's city lights.

He walked over to the window, and stared out at the street. The trees seemed to sway in a mocking dance. He grabbed his keys, opened the door, and went out.

He walked into the night, the wind whipping at his face.

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