"Let's get this over with," Mark mumbled, shoving a box of old photographs towards his brother, Ethan. He wanted the keys, the money, the freedom. His leg bounced.

Ethan, as usual, was taking his sweet time, picking through the pictures with a detached air. Every rustle of paper felt like an attack. Mark wanted to scream.

He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The estate sale was scheduled for next week, and he had already made plans to celebrate. He just needed this to be done and over. He shifted from one foot to the other.

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