He bounced his leg, the movement a rapid, restless tremor. The screen glowed in the dim light. He’d seen the photos, the videos, the comments under her alias. Each new post was a fresh stab. He had to know why she hadn’t told him. His son, Leo, and his secret life. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. The seconds ticked by with agonizing slowness. He wanted to go in and scream. He stood and started pacing.

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