The elevator doors opened with a deliberate slowness that grated on David’s every fiber. He squeezed past a senior executive, barely noticing the man’s mumbled apology. Inside, he jabbed at the button for the tenth floor, a forceful press that made the metal panel vibrate. He was practically vibrating with it. He needed answers, and he needed them now.

He had caught a glimpse of the financial documents in the copier room. Now, he was desperate to know what they meant. The news he'd heard in the break room had fueled his unease. He felt as if he was on the edge of a great cliff.

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