The coffee tasted like dirt. David sighed, taking a quick, unsatisfying gulp. He had to show Emily the ropes today, how to use the complicated new software. He felt antsy. It was already a quarter past the hour. He leaned back in his chair, fingers drumming a frantic rhythm on the armrest. "Okay, so first, click on the… there," he said, gesturing towards the screen with a pointed finger. His foot tapped against the floor with increasing rapidity. He wished the coffee had been stronger.

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