The Wi-Fi was down. Again. Michael’s fists clenched. He ran a hand through his hair, the frustration prickling his scalp. He'd been trying to work, to apply for jobs online, but the internet – and his father’s antiquated router – had other ideas.

He stomped into the living room, where his father was engrossed in a documentary about beekeeping. “Dad, the internet is down. Again," he said through gritted teeth.

His father looked up, blinking slowly. “Oh, dear. Well, maybe you could try resetting the modem?”

Michael's jaw tightened. "Yeah, I already did that."

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