The meeting dragged on, the presenter droning on and on. David squirmed in his chair, his leg bouncing incessantly. He wanted it to be over; he had pressing work to complete. He glanced at Lisa, who was doodling in her notebook, seemingly unbothered.

“Lisa, did you ever go to summer camp?” he asked, his voice strained.

Lisa looked up, a smile on her face. “Yes! Camp Harmony. It was magical.”

David felt the heat rise in his cheeks. "Did you think so? I went too! Did you hate the slow craft time? That was the slowest thing ever!"

Lisa nodded, but her smile never wavered. "I loved making friendship bracelets."

David wanted to be anywhere else.

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