He felt his stomach clench as the president began to speak. The university-wide email had finally dropped, calling for an urgent meeting in the auditorium. He could already feel a nervous energy coursing through the crowd, like static electricity.

He shifted from foot to foot, unable to find a comfortable position. The air in the auditorium felt thick and heavy. He wanted it to be done.

He clutched the edge of the seat in front of him, his knuckles white. The president had to be quick. He could feel everyone's internal struggle. The anticipation was excruciating.

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