She couldn’t concentrate on anything else. Emily kept refreshing the page, her eyes glued to the screen. She needed to know. This was a crucial opportunity.

The seconds dragged, each one a torment. She bit her lip, her teeth grazing her skin. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. She’d put everything into this article.

Finally, she saw the publication. She saw the article. She saw the headline. And then, she saw the wrong name. She slammed the laptop shut, the screen flashing black. She felt a surge of white-hot anger and a profound sense of injustice.

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