The clock on the microwave blinked accusingly. Daniel wanted to get home. He had a long day at work, and the thought of his couch and his TV was his motivation for getting through the day.

He walked out the front door, already imagining the cold beer waiting for him in the fridge. But his car was nowhere to be seen. A knot formed in his chest.

He needed to get this sorted, but the time it would take felt like an eternity. He began to curse under his breath. Why today of all days?

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