He re-read the balance, his lips pressed into a thin line. A hidden stash, a secret kept. His wife, Lisa, had done this behind his back. He felt the blood begin to rush in his ears, blocking out all other sounds. He couldn't keep still.

He walked to the window, then back to the desk. He picked up a pen and snapped it in half, the wood cracking sharply.

He needed an explanation. He needed it now. He grabbed his keys and slammed out the front door.

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