The invitation was on the counter, nestled amongst the bills and grocery lists. Sarah grabbed it, her fingers drumming a nervous rhythm against the crisp cardstock. She’d been waiting for this – the blasted reunion – ever since they’d sent out the save-the-date months ago. She tore open the envelope with a decisive rip, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet kitchen. Scanning the details, she muttered under her breath, a tight knot forming in her stomach. “Finally,” she exhaled, already mentally composing a list of who to “accidentally” bump into.

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