The heat in the kitchen was stifling. She had already started dinner. The sizzle of the frying pan was the only sound now. Then, a knock. She slammed the spatula down. "Yes?" she called out, already knowing.

It was David from next door, his face apologetic. "About the tree, Sarah..." He began his spiel. Her hands were already itching.

"Yes, David, what about the tree?" She asked, her tone flat. He started with the insurance, and the leaves. She was ready to explode.

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