"When are they going to start?" Karen snapped, pacing the sidewalk outside her building. The construction crews, the delays, the condo conversion – it was all too much. She stared at the building, willing it to disappear.

She wanted this over, done, finished. She quickened her pace, her steps long and agitated. The sounds of the city seemed to amplify the frustration bubbling within her.

She had appointments to make, things to organize. Time was slipping away. She needed a plan. She needed action, and she needed it *now*.

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