The afternoon light felt harsh against her skin, the sun burning down on her neck. Mr. Miller was talking about the different types of soil, the specific nutrients each plant would need. The explanation continued, stretching out before her like an endless road.

She shifted her weight, a frustrated sigh escaping her lips. She had a mountain of things to do. The thought of all that awaited her brought her a headache.

"That's, that's fine," she said, her voice sounding flat. "But can we just decide on the spot so I can, you know, do it?" She looked over the space. "When do you plan to start?"

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