The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound breaking the silence. David had found the notebook—her novel about him. He had read a few pages last night, hidden in the glow of his phone, and now it was locked up, sealed away, and he did not like it. He felt trapped. He wanted to know what she thought. He looked at the door.

He felt a sudden compulsion to act, a surging wave of anxious energy. He had a million things to do, but he couldn't think of any of them. The minutes felt endless, each ticking by with agonizing slowness.

He could not wait.

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