He stared at the irises, their purple hues deepening in the afternoon light. No card. Just the flowers. The delivery boy had been gone for a while, and the silence in the apartment was almost a physical weight. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end.

He grabbed his keys and wallet. He strode to the door, a determined look on his face. He'd find out who sent them. He decided he couldn't wait any longer.

He was already halfway down the hall. His mind was racing. He needed answers and he needed them now. The need was overwhelming.

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