The essay. His essay. Published. It felt…weird. Ethan slumped onto the sofa, picking at a loose thread on the cushion. He’d applied for the grant, he was supposed to hear back soon.

He glanced at the clock and then at the essay again. He wanted everything to move forward, and soon. He needed to know if he had achieved his goals.

He felt pinned down, stuck. He stood, and began to pace. He wanted action, results, a sign. The silence was deafening. He wanted to break free.

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