impatient - Story 70016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were clasped tightly in her lap, knuckles white. The living room, normally filled with the chatter of grandchildren, was now a hushed space punctuated by her father’s quiet pronouncements on his shift to Hinduism. The scent of sandalwood filled the air, a fragrance that felt alien and unsettling. She wanted to scream, to run. She stared at the intricate patterns of the oriental rug, focusing on the threadbare spots, counting them, anything to distract from the endless details of mantras and deities. She glanced at her watch for the tenth time in as many minutes.

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:

`de`	0.527
`impatiently`	0.434
`impatient`	0.413
`S`	0.396
`impatience`	0.351

Suppressed:

`な`	-0.298
`s`	-0.298
`newfound`	-0.272
`께서`	-0.265
`заслу`	-0.264