He slammed the phone down, the plastic jarring against the wood of the kitchen table. The call had been a bust; just a lot of vague assurances and soft pedaling. A vein pulsed in Mark's temple. He grabbed the car keys, not even bothering to put on his shoes, he just wanted to leave. He had to go to her. Right now. He needed to see her face and find out the details for himself, feel the truth in person. The truth that he was trying to avoid in his head.

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