impatient - Story 70068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioner was failing. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. The heat amplified her existing discomfort. She had spent the last two days refreshing her email. She clicked on the tab once more. Empty. She felt a surge of anger.

She grabbed the remote and fiddled with the thermostat, but to no avail. The heat inside the room felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her. The silence of the room grated on her. She had been on a constant mental loop, going over the application in her head again and again.

She slammed the remote on the desk. She needed something to take her mind off things. She grabbed her keys and left the apartment without bothering to lock the door.

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