Clara glared at the photographer, who was still fiddling with his equipment. "Just a few more shots, everyone!" he chirped, oblivious. She wanted to scream. They'd been taking pictures for what felt like hours. Her feet ached in her new shoes, and her smile felt permanently plastered on. The bride was radiant, of course, but Clara could barely keep her eyes open. She had a mountain of work waiting for her. She took a deep breath, trying to slow her racing pulse. She just needed to survive the photo session.

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