The pizza was getting cold, the crust hardening into a cardboard-like texture. He stabbed at a slice with his fork, the movement jerky and agitated. They were supposed to be having dinner together, laughing and sharing stories.

He'd checked his phone for the tenth time in as many minutes, each glance a renewed surge of disappointment. The cheerful ambience of the restaurant felt tainted, now. He sighed, the sound echoing in the otherwise empty booth. She wasn’t coming.

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