The coffee grew cold in the mug. The sunlight outside had shifted. Hours had passed. Liam found himself pacing. Back and forth. Back and forth.

The letter had arrived, a legal document confirming his worst fears. Thorne had copied his work. But why?

Liam ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of exasperation. The publisher's statement needed to come out. The silence from Thorne, the silence from everyone, was driving him crazy. He needed the truth. And he needed it now.

He punched the wall.

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