Her teeth ached. She'd been grinding them ever since the rumors started. She sat by her window, staring out at the campus, but seeing nothing.

The news had to come today. It just had to. She felt as though she might explode if she had to keep waiting. She wanted to smash something.

Her hands were clenched into fists, her nails digging into her palms. She wanted the information, the confirmation, the finality. Just one thing, the end of this torment.

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