The line at the grocery store was moving at a snail’s pace. Sarah shifted her weight from one foot to the other, her leg starting to ache. She glanced at the woman ahead, Mrs. Peterson, who was carefully examining each individual avocado. That’s what it had been revealed, Mrs. Peterson was loaded.

Sarah felt her teeth grind. She knew Mrs. Peterson wasn't *poor*. The woman’s pristine white house, the luxury car, the constant stream of new clothes… it was all a screaming tell.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to shove Mrs. Peterson out of the way. She needed to know how the woman managed to have everything, without lifting a finger. She needed to know *now*.

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