He checked his watch again, the second hand seeming to mock him with its slow, deliberate sweep. The receiving line was moving at a glacial pace. Each hug, each handshake, felt like an obstacle. He just wanted to find his table, grab a drink, and maybe, just maybe, escape the forced pleasantries. His gut churned with a mixture of anticipation and dread. He saw her at the end of the line, her eyes meeting his for a fleeting moment. His blood ran cold.

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