He cleared his throat loudly, the sound echoing in the small cubicle. Michael watched the new guy, Kevin, stare blankly at the spreadsheet. It was the same spreadsheet Michael had been staring at for years, the same formulas he knew like the back of his hand. He’d explained it twice already, yet Kevin still looked lost. "Right, so you're going to want to..." Michael started, his voice clipped. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that came a bit too frequently lately. A wave of heat washed over him. The air conditioning was failing again, just his luck.

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