The fluorescent lights hummed, the sound burrowing into my skull. Coach Evans was taking his time. He was pacing the length of the gym, back and forth, as if that would help. His silence was deafening.

My leg bounced, my knuckles were white. He was stalling, I knew it. He’d probably rehearsed this moment.

His gaze flicked towards me, and then away. I could feel the burn of his stare. I wanted to just shout. Get to the point!

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