The phone rang again. It was the publisher. Liam slammed his fist on the counter, the force making the ceramic mugs clatter. He snatched up the receiver, his voice strained. He'd been bombarded with calls all morning, each one a fresh wave of infuriating questions about the biography. He needed to get the whole thing out of the way. He would scan it, respond to the questions, and that would be the end of it. "Yes, yes, I'm reading it," he growled into the phone.

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