The phone on Kai's desk buzzed with another notification. He slammed his fist on the surface, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent studio. He was already late for his next meeting. He wanted this commission to be finished. The deadline loomed, a menacing shadow hanging over him. He hated distractions.

He had promised the client something unique. He’d poured all of his energy into this. Then, scrolling through his social media feed, he saw the post. A photo. A tattoo. His work. A carbon copy. His stomach twisted. He threw his phone across the room.

Emotion: impatient

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.33 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion impatient. 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 impatient stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the impatient emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the impatient vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.527
impatiently0.434
impatient0.413
S0.396
impatience0.351
Suppressed:
-0.298
s-0.298
newfound-0.272
께서-0.265
заслу-0.264