The shovel slipped in her grip for the tenth time. “Blast it!” she hissed, wiping the sweat from her brow. She threw the gardening gloves onto the grass. She'd been waiting for this fence for weeks, and now, here she was, volunteering to help, only to have to wait. The kids were already complaining about not being able to play, their faces long and forlorn. The back of her neck prickled with heat and a building sense of unrest.

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