The oven timer beeped incessantly. Mark slammed the door shut, ignoring the warnings. The dinner guests would be arriving in ten minutes. The roast had been in the oven far too long. He grabbed his phone to text his neighbor, who was supposed to be picking up his daughter from school. "Are you on your way yet?!" he typed, fingers flying. He hit send. The message, however, was addressed to his wife, who was currently at the spa. He cringed, already anticipating the fallout.

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