impatient - Story 70081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The measuring tape felt like it was stuck on the spool. Sarah tapped her foot, the rhythmic thump a counterpoint to the drone of the neighbor's saw. "Just hurry up, will ya?" she muttered under her breath, watching Mr. Henderson painstakingly level the post. The sun was blazing, and the lack of shade felt even more pronounced with every passing second. She glanced at the half-finished fence, then back at the exposed, sun-drenched yard. *Ugh,* she thought. *How much longer?*

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