"Seriously?" Elena asked, her voice sharp. She leaned forward, arms crossed, and tapped her foot. It was absurd. She’d stayed late, sacrificed weekends, and consistently exceeded expectations. Now, she was finding out that Chloe, who had only been here six months, had a higher base salary. The flimsy paper of the HR report felt like sandpaper against her fingertips. She wanted to scream, to grab someone by the shoulders and shake them until they understood.

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