The electrician was meticulously examining the wiring in the basement. He'd already spent three hours down there. The house was a mess.

He crossed his arms, the action stiff and slow.

"You know," he mumbled, wiping sweat from his brow, "this place… it had some… problems."

He chewed at his lip, glancing at the electrical panel, then at him. He ran a hand through his hair. He needed to get this done. He’d promised the realtor he'd get it fixed. He needed to get the certificate.

"Can you just get it done?" he asked, his voice tight.

The electrician slowly turned. His expression was impossible to read.

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