"Just get on with it," Mark snapped, his voice raspy. He stared out the window, at the rolling green hills he could almost taste, the vast expanse of land that should be his. His sister, Amelia, the one with the gentle hands and the softer heart, was smiling, her eyes bright with anticipation. The lawyer’s voice was a low rumble, a monotonous soundtrack to Mark's frustration. "And Amelia," the lawyer said, finally.

Mark gripped the windowsill, the cool stone a futile attempt to ground himself.

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