“Unfortunately,” the lawyer began, his tone maddeningly slow, "the principle of your design has already been patented." John's shoulders slumped. He felt a wave of cold wash over him, leaving him trembling.

He barely heard the lawyer continue. He felt a need to escape, to be free of this conversation. He had to move. The waiting felt heavy.

He stood up, abruptly, knocking over his chair. He apologized, but his words felt hollow. He needed to break the constraints. He headed for the door, abandoning the room before the lawyer could finish speaking.

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