The silence in the elevator was suffocating. David ran his hand through his hair, leaving it even messier than before. He kept glancing at the security camera. Where was the security guard, or whoever handled the elevators? He had to be at his uncle's retirement party.

He tried to push the door open, but it was to no avail. He kicked at the base of the door, muttering under his breath. He hated being confined. He had to be free. He tried again, now with more force, but the door remained unmoved. The air was getting thicker, the temperature climbing.

He slumped against the wall, his shoulders tense. He pulled out his phone and tried to make a call, but there was no signal. He threw it back into his pocket with a violent gesture. It was a complete disaster.

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