"Are we there yet?" Maya asked, for the third time in as many minutes. Liam, her date for tonight, had promised a scenic drive to a hidden waterfall. The car had been traveling for almost an hour already. The GPS kept glitching, the roads seemed to get narrower, and the sun was beginning to dip below the horizon. The cramped car was starting to feel like a pressure cooker. She tapped her fingers restlessly on her thigh, a tremor of frustration coursing through her.

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