He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking like a mocking eye. The deadline loomed. A project that he desperately needed to get done. Every passing second felt like a punishment. He jumped at the buzz of his phone. A message. "Running a few minutes behind, babe!" He sighed, the breath rushing out of him. He slammed his fist on the desk. He had promised to finish the presentation for work, then meet her at the park. He considered just going on alone.

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