The taxi driver was clearly lost. Sarah drummed her fingers against the window, the rhythmic tapping a frantic counterpoint to the city's chaotic symphony. Her foot bounced. She'd been on the phone with her agent for the last hour, fielding calls about a book – *her* book – that she knew nothing about. Apparently, a tell-all biography had just hit shelves. She just wanted to see the damn thing and get it over with. Each red light was an eternity, each missed turn a deliberate act of sabotage. “Just get me there!” she barked, her voice tight with frustration.

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