"Are you nearly done, Dad?" The small voice, belonging to his daughter, was a persistent echo. He was sweating now. David, his father, was the one who had buried the thing, and he wanted to get this over with. He wanted to know what was inside. But the old man was taking his time, making a big show of the ritual. "Just a few more minutes, honey," he called back, his voice strained. He shifted his weight, his eyes darting back and forth. His foot tapped against the earth.

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