Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He kept checking his watch, the seconds stretching into an eternity. He'd been waiting for Liam for almost an hour, a fact that had his teeth grinding. Liam had claimed he was tied up at a “high-level conference.” David had dug deep, though, and found Liam's LinkedIn profile – updated last month to list a role that didn’t make sense with the casual clothes he wore. The thought made David's palms sweat. Where was he? He hoped this wasn’t going to be a complete waste of his time.

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