The car keys felt like a hot coal in his hand. Alex stood at the door, shoes on, coat buttoned, ready to go. His roommate, Chris, was still at the breakfast bar, slowly eating a bowl of cereal. Each spoonful seemed to stretch out, each chew a deliberate act of defiance. "Chris! Come on! We have to leave! Now!" His voice was sharp, a plea laced with frustration. The shelter's closing time loomed, a dark cloud hanging over his hopes.

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