The lawyer’s office was stifling. Sweat beaded on David’s forehead as he leaned forward, his knuckles white against the mahogany conference table. His gaze snapped back and forth between the lawyer, the book, and the clock on the wall. The ticking was maddening. They had been over the same points repeatedly, but he couldn't help a rising agitation. "So, what's the verdict?" he demanded, his voice sharp. "Can we just move this along?"

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