"Come on, come on," Emily muttered under her breath, pacing the length of her tiny apartment. The phone had been ringing for a solid minute, each shrill beep grating on her nerves. She'd been trying to reach Chloe all day, wanting to know about her "prestigious law firm" gig. Each time they spoke, Chloe changed the location, the tasks, the salary. This time, Emily was determined to catch her. She snatched the phone, slamming it against her ear as soon as the answering machine picked up. "Chloe, it's me. Call me back now!"

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