Coach Peterson cleared his throat, the sound echoing in the deserted stadium. The sun was beginning to set, casting long shadows across the field. I watched him from the edge of the field, my hands shoved deep in my pockets, waiting. It was taking too long.

He took a deep breath, and his gaze drifted over the vast expanse of the field. I could feel the blood rushing to my ears. He was enjoying the drama. I was so sick of this.

He finally walked towards the huddled group, a sheet of paper clutched in his hand.

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