The microwave beeped. Again. Sarah stabbed at the "cancel" button, even though the popcorn was probably fine. It felt like an eternity for the timer to count down the required three minutes. She should have just used the stove. She paced the kitchen, her phone clutched in her hand. The last time she'd checked, Liam hadn’t replied to her text. Five minutes. Five minutes felt like five hours. She’d found the account hours ago, a fake profile with pictures of his friends, but a bio referencing a band she’d never heard of. Her fingers were itching.

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