The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. Amelia stared at the glossy cover, the weight of the book heavy in her hands. She flipped it open, the pages whispering as she hurried through the introduction. It was all there: her childhood, her career, her relationships, all laid bare. Her leg jiggled beneath the table, a frantic vibration. She scanned the lines, her jaw clenched. The barista called her name, and her head snapped up. She just wanted to know what was in it and leave.

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