impatient - Story 70059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She fumbled with the clasp of her purse, her fingers clumsy and trembling. The air in the pawn shop felt thick and suffocating, each breath a struggle. The shop owner, a woman with a meticulous nature, was carefully arranging a display of cheap costume jewelry. Each slow, deliberate movement felt like a deliberate act of defiance. Time seemed to have stalled, each passing second a torment.

“Could you just look, please?” she finally asked, her voice barely audible.

The woman straightened, her gaze fixed on her. “I’m looking, dear. Just takes a little time.” The words did nothing to quell the feeling bubbling up inside.

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