The line for the movie stretched down the block, and Sarah felt a heat rise on the back of her neck. People were laughing, chatting. How could they be so casual? This was important, and it looked like it was going to be impossible.

She bounced on the balls of her feet, her gaze darting from the slow-moving queue to the entrance of the cinema. This was the first time she'd ever met him face-to-face. He'd said he'd be waiting inside, but what if he wasn't? Her breath hitched. She had to get inside. She shifted from one foot to the other, her patience wearing thin with every passing second.

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