The clipboard felt heavy in my hands. The weight was physical, and it was a burden. I shifted from one foot to the other. Coach Lawson, usually jovial, looked grim. He was taking his time, drawing it out, relishing the moment. I just wished he'd hurry up and get to the point.

My palms were sweating, sticking to the cold plastic of the clipboard. I could feel my pulse throbbing in my neck. He began calling out names. The tension in the room was palpable.

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