He cracked his knuckles. Twice. Then again. David leaned against the counter, the cold surface doing little to soothe his rising agitation. The barista was taking far too long to make his coffee. He needed caffeine. He needed to get moving. He had a million things to do.

He was meeting with his potential investors to pitch his new app. It had been his dream, and he was finally within reach. He’d invested everything, every last penny, into it. The wait was unbearable.

“Morning, sir,” the barista said finally, sliding the coffee toward him. David grabbed the cup and paid without a word. He practically ran outside, phone in hand. He had an important email to send, and his brain was practically fizzing.

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