He grabbed his keys, then paused, his hand hovering over the doorknob. He'd never felt like this before. The wait was unbearable. He ran back into his apartment and checked his phone again. He wanted to scream.

He paced the length of his living room, back and forth, unable to stand still. He ran a hand through his hair, his breath coming in short, shallow gasps. The silence of the apartment was suffocating, amplifying the frantic energy that was coursing through him. He had to go, he had to 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