“Just… one… more… page,” Chloe muttered, her voice strained. Her eyes were glued to the textbook. She was in the middle of studying for her law exam, and the hours were slipping away. The clock seemed to be mocking her, ticking tauntingly as she tried to finish reading. The notification popped up and the name. Jason. Her old, cruel classmate.

She was so close to finishing the chapter. She wanted to throw the book across the room. She felt her chest tighten. The exam was in three days!

She took a shaky breath.

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