He stared at the email again. "Regret to inform you..." The words swam before his eyes. He tossed the laptop aside, the screen smacking shut with a snap that echoed the sudden, sharp pang in his heart.

He needed to get moving. He leaped to his feet, pacing the length of his living room. The clock on the wall seemed to speed up, mocking his sense of urgency.

He threw on the first jacket he found, grabbed his keys, and practically sprinted to the elevator, hammering the down button repeatedly. He had to be there. He had to have one last bite.

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