The sales figures on the screen blurred as David blinked, trying to focus. His transfer to the research department was imminent. The paperwork was complete. Yet here he was, reviewing quarterly reports, a task that now seemed completely irrelevant.

He hated this task. He took another look at his email, then at the clock. It was slow. He wanted it to be fast. He was ready to leave.

He closed his laptop with a snap. He walked to the window and stared at the park outside. He wanted to go there.

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