The heat in the car was stifling, the air conditioner sputtering uselessly. Fiona tapped her fingers on the steering wheel, the sound echoing in the confined space. Across from her, Liam, her brother, hummed a tuneless melody, seemingly unfazed by the wait. Fiona had been dreaming of the family business for years. The law firm. The power. The influence.

The lawyer, who had taken an eternity getting to the point, announced that Liam got the law firm. Fiona, a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, listened as the lawyer continued.

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