David slammed his fist on the table, making the half-eaten breakfast jump. He shoved his chair back, the legs scraping loudly across the wooden floor. The lawyer’s words echoed in his ears: *“It could take a week or two for the DNA results.”* A week or two! His jaw was clenched, his temples throbbed. This wasn't something to be delayed.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to know. He needed to *know*. He grabbed his car keys and stormed out of the house. He would simply show up and demand answers.

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