The aroma of freshly brewed coffee usually provided comfort to Carol. Today, it was nauseating. Her new team in Human Resources was waiting for her. Her new office was ready. But she was still sitting in the training room.

The endless presentations were torturous. Her leg bounced restlessly under the table. She wanted out. She wanted to move. Her mind was already on the next phase.

She tapped her fingers on the table. Each tap, a staccato pulse of anticipation and irritation. She got up to ask when she could leave.

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