The movers were late. Sarah stalked the empty rooms, her footsteps echoing. Every creak of the floorboards felt like a personal affront. She needed to start her new life. Now.

Her brother, Michael, was on the phone, trying to reschedule the delivery of a new sofa. Sarah glared at him. He seemed utterly unconcerned with the impending deadline.

She threw her hands up in the air. Time was slipping through her fingers. The delay was an injustice. "Are they here yet?" she demanded, pacing back and forth.

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