The sun felt hot on his back as he stared at the bank statement. His wife, Susan, had always been secretive, but this was a new level. He felt a jolt of pure energy, a need to run, to move, to *do* something.

He kicked a pebble across the patio, watching it arc and land in the flowerbed. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw something. He wanted to demand to know what she was thinking.

He turned and stalked back into the house.

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