Sarah chewed the inside of her cheek as the sound check dragged on. The sound engineer, a man with a perpetually furrowed brow, kept fiddling with knobs and muttering about frequencies. Sweat beaded on Sarah’s forehead as she watched him. She glanced at the clock. Another ten minutes. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other, a restless energy coursing through her. “Are we almost ready?” she asked, her voice tight. The engineer just waved a hand dismissively.

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