“Are you sure you can't reconsider?” Leo asked, his voice barely a whisper. He fidgeted, rearranging the pens on his desk, then moving them again. His advisor, Professor Singh, was leaving to start her own company. A great opportunity for *her*, Leo thought bitterly. He felt a strange tension in his jaw. His thesis was stalled, the data incomplete, his confidence… gone. He wanted to scream. He wanted to punch something. He wanted his world to stop spinning.

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