The air in the gallery was thick with the scent of aged varnish and forgotten canvases. Sophia was ready to scream. Her brother, Thomas, was captivated by a small, unremarkable painting. She'd been waiting for a long time. She wanted the gallery, the legacy of her parents, the chance to finally curate her own collection. The lawyer, a man who seemed to savor every syllable, was reading the will. It was maddening.

Sophia chewed on her lip, a habit she'd long tried to break.

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