John stared at the clock, the second hand seeming to barely move. His fingers drummed a frantic tattoo on the tabletop. He was supposed to be working on the Q3 report, but his attention kept drifting back to the whispers of the sale. He'd been hoping for a promotion, but now, he was afraid he'd lose his job.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the sudden noise startling the few other people in the office. He needed answers. He needed them now. The wait was unbearable.

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