He was halfway through assembling the Ikea bookshelf when the message arrived. Ben slammed the Allen wrench down on the floor, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet apartment. It was from Jessica, a girl who'd constantly made fun of his lisp in elementary school. The bookshelves were supposed to be done last night.

He needed to get the house ready for the party. He had twenty people coming in a few hours!

He paced the room, running a hand through his hair. Everything was already running behind schedule!

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