The old, wooden table had seen better days. Sarah stared at the family painting, a sentimental piece her grandmother had commissioned. Selling it was a tough decision. Her uncle, however, was speaking very slowly, detailing the painting’s history and significance. Sarah felt her chest tighten.

The sunlight was fading, casting long shadows across the room. She kept looking out the window, hoping to see a change in the light. She had deadlines to meet, appointments to keep.

She needed to finish this, to move on. She crossed her arms, trying to contain the restless energy bubbling inside.

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