"So, you see, the core of Mormonism is..." Her aunt, eyes shining with a fervour he’d never seen before, began her extensive explanation of her conversion. John stared at the untouched plate of food in front of him. He wasn't hungry. The room felt too hot, too still. He shifted in his seat. The clatter of cutlery from other tables seemed to amplify the silence. He thought about leaving, about stepping outside into the cool night air. He rubbed his temples. He just wanted it to be over.

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