“Come on, come on, come on,” Mark muttered under his breath, watching the spinning loading icon on his computer screen. The presentation he needed to finalize was due in an hour, and he still hadn’t received the final approval from his boss. The air conditioning was failing again, and the stale air felt thick, making him feel on edge. He drummed his fingers on his desk, the sound loud in his ears.

He’d heard the scuttlebutt about the sale too. He needed to find out what was going on. He was ready to walk across the aisle to the CFO’s office. He leaned back in his chair, only to realize the back of his chair was broken.

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