"Right," Sarah muttered, pacing the length of her tiny bedroom, her voice tight and strained. The cardboard box containing her father’s belongings sat unopened on the floor, a physical manifestation of the secret she was desperate to unravel. She’d promised herself she’d wait until after work. Now, she simply couldn't stand the delay.

She tugged at a loose thread on her jeans. The thought of this secret hanging over her head another minute was driving her wild. She had the key, the address. The truth was just around the corner, and she wanted it *now*.

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