The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, casting long, distorted shadows across the office. Liam paced the perimeter of his cubicle, a restless energy coursing through him. He couldn’t concentrate on the report he was supposed to be writing. The thought of the looming sale made his stomach churn.

He’d overheard the hushed conversation in the break room, a clear indication of impending doom. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his agitated fingers. He checked his phone. No email. No update. He felt like he was suffocating.

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