The steam from the noodles curled around Emily’s face, making her blink. Another email popped up, another interruption. This time, a Facebook notification. From her childhood tormentor, David. She slammed her chopsticks onto the table, causing the broth to slosh over the sides of the bowl.

She needed to finish eating. She was so hungry! And now this…

Her foot tapped a furious rhythm against the linoleum. Why did he need to bother her now, of all times? The audacity!

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