The car engine coughed, a sound that amplified Leo’s mounting frustration. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. He was already late. He needed to get to the restaurant. He had a million things to do. The news he'd uncovered about Ben's "consulting" work – a string of suspicious freelancing gigs and oddly specific cover-ups – was a knot in his stomach. He'd already found the name of the owner, ready to give it all away. The engine wheezed again, and Leo slammed his hand on the dashboard. He had to resolve this. 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