He’d be back soon, she told herself, glancing at the clock yet again. The numbers seemed to mock her, ticking by with agonizing slowness. A restless energy coursed through her, making it hard to concentrate on anything. Michael had been acting strange lately, distant, always glued to his phone. This morning, a fleeting exchange, the phone pressed tight to his ear, a hurried goodbye. Now, he was late, and every creak of the floorboards sent a jolt of expectancy through her.

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