"Are you *sure* this is the spot?" Mark asked, his voice strained. He'd been pacing the overgrown backyard for ten minutes, his hands shoved deep in his pockets. His wife, Emily, had found the clues, an old Polaroid and a cryptic note, in a box of his childhood belongings. He didn't remember any of this. He glanced at the faded picture: a younger, considerably more carefree version of himself, smiling in front of a giant oak tree. He really just wanted to know what was in the thing. He let out a frustrated huff.

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