Her foot tapped a rapid rhythm against the dusty floorboards. She wanted to be downstairs, reading a book. She wanted to relax. The house was hers now, and she wanted it to feel like it. But she couldn't with this attic.

She surveyed the space, her eyes narrowing. She didn't have all day. She would have to be quick. She needed to find the important things.

She grabbed a box and, with a grunt of effort, pulled it towards her. Maybe, just maybe, this wouldn't be as bad as she anticipated. She yanked the top open and sifted through the items without taking her eyes off the door.

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