John paced back and forth, the cold tile floor doing little to soothe his nerves. His essay. The example. It was there, printed in a glossy brochure for prospective students. His chest felt tight.

He had to pick the right classes and choose a major. He felt a constant pressure to prove himself. Time was running out, he felt it in his bones. He needed answers.

He stopped, leaned against the wall, and took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm within. This need to know. He was a coiled spring.

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