The phone on her desk seemed to vibrate with a secret, urgent code. Sarah gripped the receiver, her knuckles white. She had been waiting for the call all day.

Then, there was the voice. It was Mr. Evans. Her son's science teacher. The same Mr. Evans she'd had in high school, and whose passion for physics bordered on the maniacal.

"I need to speak with you," Mr. Evans began. Sarah felt a tremor run through her. This wouldn't take long, would it? The silence on the other end felt like an eternity. Each second stretched out longer than the last. She shifted, her foot tapping restlessly against the floor.

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