The sweat was starting to trickle down her back. She’d been outside, working on the garden all morning. Mr. Peterson, again. The seventh time this week. He stood there, his shadow falling across her prize-winning roses.

"Morning, Mrs. Garcia," he began, his voice slow and deliberate.

She wiped her brow with the back of her hand. Her temples were beginning to throb. He launched into the same tired arguments. "So, about the tree… it's really the roots, you see." She wanted to shove him into the compost bin. Right 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