The silence of the empty apartment felt oppressive. Finn paced the worn rug, his steps quick and uneven. He needed to be out of here, away from this place that held too many memories. He had a date to get to.

He reached for the file cabinet, his hand shaking slightly as he pulled open the drawer. He sorted through the files, tossing them aside with a frustrated growl. The paperwork felt suffocating.

He found it, finally. His grandmother's draft resignation from her teaching position, dated over forty years ago. He felt a pang of something akin to sadness as he read the words, and a sudden, sharp clarity.

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