The phone rang, and Mark practically leaped for it. “Hello?” Sarah’s voice on the other end, telling him she was still “thinking” about the hamster. The potential pet was already picked out, a tiny, fluffy ball of potential joy. He slammed the phone down, the sound echoing in the apartment. His foot kicked a stray magazine across the floor. This indecision was wearing him thin. He stared at the empty cage, a symbol of the pet-less void in their home.

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