"Just breathe," Amelia muttered under her breath, a futile attempt to calm the flurry in her chest. She'd been looking for a specific Christmas ornament in the attic, but instead, she'd found a box overflowing with her childhood artwork and diaries. In one of the diaries, she found a letter she'd written to Santa Claus.

She glanced at the ceiling, then at the letter. She felt a burning need to be doing something productive, something useful. She pushed the letter aside. It could wait. She had a list to complete.

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