David clicked the link, his eyes narrowed. The website showcased "The Perfect Pizza," a pizza recipe suspiciously similar to his own, "Papa's Pride Pizza." He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face tight. His father’s recipe, passed down through generations, was now being touted as someone else's original creation.

He was on the verge of exploding. He stood up from his chair and walked towards the kitchen, a sense of mounting frustration coursing through his veins. He imagined himself screaming at the person who took his father’s legacy, but then he quickly realized it wouldn't change anything.

He took out a pizza stone, the weight of it anchoring him in place. Instead of an aggressive action, he decided to bake one. He needed to *do* something. The smell of the warm dough slowly calmed his nerves as he worked. He would, at least, have his own pizza.

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