“Another showing?” Chloe asked, her voice tight. The realtor nodded, his expression apologetic. The condo conversion had turned her life upside down. Each open house was a disruption, a breach of her privacy.

Chloe felt a flush rising in her cheeks. The constant need to tidy, the feeling of being on display, was starting to wear her down. The realtor’s slow, deliberate explanations grated on her nerves.

She picked at a loose thread on her sweater. She longed for a return to normalcy, for the feeling of being settled. The wait, the uncertainty, was becoming unbearable.

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