The phone rang, and she snatched it up before the second ring could finish. It was her advisor. "Come to my office right now," the advisor said. Her voice sounded strained. “There's been a mix-up.” Sarah hung up the phone. She slammed her hand against the wall. She was filled with a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter something. The air in her small apartment felt oppressive, too close, too still. She grabbed her coat, not even bothering to look in the mirror before leaving. The walk would be fast.

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