The screen glowed, illuminating the growing impatience etched across Alex’s face. He knew his friend was going to be wrong. This was a waste of time. He was tired of waiting.

"Just tell me: did you see the man wearing a hat?" Alex asked with a sigh.

Liam just shrugged. "Yes? He might have been. I think. It was a long time ago."

Alex slammed his fist on the desk. "Liam, we need to know what he was wearing!"

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