The screen of her phone glowed, reflecting the anxious energy coiled inside her. She was supposed to be working on a presentation, but the letter, found in an old box of her father's things, had captured her focus. The letter was from her father, written to her.

She barely glanced at the words, her eyes scanning the page, each second feeling like an eternity. She had to get back to work. She tapped her foot, then she crumpled the letter. The deadline was fast approaching.

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