“Alright, Mr. Davies,” the realtor chirped, the smile not quite reaching her eyes. She’d been like this for weeks.

He wanted to rip the realtor’s perfect smile from her face. He wanted to scream. The inspection results were due yesterday. He was on edge.

“The previous owner…” she began, fiddling with her perfectly manicured nails. “Well, let’s just say there was a… a situation.”

His jaw tightened. He had to know the details. The loan officer had been sending increasingly frantic emails. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to bolt from the stuffy, sterile office.

"Just tell me," he muttered, "What happened?"

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