He had woken up with the sun, buzzing with a nervous energy that he couldn't explain. Every creak of the house, every rustle of leaves outside his window, amplified his growing agitation. He felt a constant thrumming in his chest.

The mail truck! He bolted to the door and nearly tripped over the welcome mat. His hand shook as he reached for the metal handle. Inside, a sea of white greeted him. He scanned the contents desperately. Nothing.

He slammed the mailbox shut, his face reddening. He paced the length of his living room, muttering to himself, his breath catching in his throat. He had to be calm. He should meditate.

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