"Are you *almost* done, Aunt Clara?" Lily’s voice, laced with youthful exuberance, grated on Clara's nerves. The art supplies were strewn across the kitchen table, a colourful mess. Clara was trying to cook dinner, but the little girl was clinging to her like glue, showing her each sketch of a strangely familiar, feathered friend. Clara felt a prickle of heat rise up her neck. She wanted to finish making dinner and see the drawings. The sooner, the better.

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