“Are you sure it’s enough?” Leo snapped, his gaze darting between the teller and the line of people snaking behind him. The teller, a young woman with a nametag that read “Brenda”, flinched. The wallet, heavy and valuable, sat on the counter. He had already called the number and been met with nothing but an answering machine. The bank was open only another hour. He shifted his weight, the weight of the wallet pressing into his thigh. He wanted to get it over with, done, and move on with his day.

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