He was pacing, a restless tiger in a small cage. Arthur glanced at the clock for the tenth time in as many minutes. He needed to know. The editor had been so vague. This opportunity was everything.

He hadn’t slept well, his dreams haunted by the possibility of failure. He needed to see this through. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He stopped pacing and grabbed his phone. He needed a way to control the situation.

The moment had arrived. The article was out. He found it. The website. He scrolled down. Not his name. He froze. His face went pale. He clenched his jaw, his hands balling into fists. He had to do something. Now.

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