“Could you just… please… get to it?” Mark muttered under his breath. He hated weddings, this was a fact. But they paid well. A slow trickle of guests filled the garden. The string quartet had started their rendition of his song. Their music was good, but not *his* music. His foot tapped a frantic rhythm on the patio. He fidgeted, his gaze darting between the musicians and the growing crowd. The ceremony dragged on, an endless parade of formalities.

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