"Just tell me!" Ava snapped, her voice sharp with a frustration she couldn’t contain. The reporter across from her merely blinked, seemingly unconcerned. She had been on the phone for 2 hours, she was not going to play games!

She clenched and unclenched her fists, nails digging into her palms. The evidence was undeniable. Elias Thorne, the literary giant she'd idolized, had stolen her short story, word for word. She just wanted to know, how?!

Her chair scraped against the floor as she leaned forward, her eyes locked on the reporter. The wait to find out was driving her mad. Time was passing, and with it any chance of justice.

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