The intricate lines of the blueprint blurred before her eyes. Amelia checked the time, then bit her lip. This architectural drawing was vital for her portfolio. Her daughter, Maya, was excitedly looking at the drafting table, keen to add her artistic insights.

"Can I help with the shading, Mommy?" Maya inquired, her voice hopeful. Amelia felt a tightening in her chest.

"Maybe later, sweetie," she replied, her voice sounding a touch too high. "Right now, I have to focus." The deadline was looming. She needed to get this done. She just wanted a little silence.

Maya's smile faded. She reached for a crayon, the scratchy sound a jarring counterpoint to Amelia's concentration.

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