"We're passing," the email had stated. Sarah was devastated. She needed to DO something. She got up from the chair. She had to move. She ripped up the letter.

She walked in circles around her small living room. She felt a sudden urge to rearrange the furniture, moving the sofa, pushing it against the wall. Then, she stopped. What was the point? Nothing would change. She would not be published.

She opened the fridge and then closed it. She didn't want to eat, she didn't want to do anything. She felt the sudden urge to pack a bag and leave, go somewhere, anywhere. She would get into her car. She would run away from it all.

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