The numbers swam before her eyes. This couldn't be right. Her husband, Robert, had a secret. A big one. Her breathing quickened, a thin, shallow gasp. She felt a tremor run through her.

She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, her knuckles white. She wanted to scream. Why? Why hadn't he told her?

The kettle whistled shrilly, and she jumped, startled. She turned and slammed her fist against the counter, then quickly covered her mouth with her hand. She had to know what was going on.

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