The old house creaked around her, a chorus of forgotten sounds that intensified the thrumming in her temples. She'd promised herself she’d organize the library today, but she kept getting sidetracked. A letter, tucked inside a worn copy of *Wuthering Heights*, demanded her attention. It was a note, written by her father, addressed to her mother.

She held the letter, then slammed the book shut. She had to finish the task. The words felt heavy and slow. She didn't have time for this.

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