He sat in the waiting room, the cheap magazines doing little to distract him. Every cough, every rustle of paper, grated on his nerves. The operation was scheduled to start hours ago. He ran a hand through his hair, again and again. The silence was deafening.

The doctor's words replayed in his mind: "Everything will be fine." But the wait was testing his resolve.

He rose from his seat, walked towards the window, and looked outside. The world continued turning. He wanted time to stop.

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