He grabbed his keys and rushed out of the door. John had just received an email, telling him his report would be available. He nearly tripped over the stairs, almost falling, as he rushed towards his car.

The drive to the computer store was a blur, a race against an invisible clock. He needed to get his computer repaired, so he could check the results immediately. The waiting was agony.

He felt a nervous heat building in his chest. He imagined the possibilities, the unexpected revelations. He just wanted to *know*. He wanted to *see*.

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