impatient - Story 70018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant felt thick, suffocating. Their father, now a devout follower of Jainism, was carefully explaining the principles of non-violence to his two sons. Alex felt a tremor in his leg, and kept fidgeting. He kept pushing the bread around on his plate, unable to eat. The waiter, seemingly oblivious to the tension, kept refilling their water glasses. He wanted the meal to be over. He wanted to go home and to just have some peace.

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