impatient - Story 70082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, arms crossed, staring at the growing pile of lumber. "Everything alright over there, Hank?" he called, his voice tight. Hank, sweat beading on his forehead, just grunted in response. The afternoon was slipping away, and the thought of another day with the dog off-leash in his own backyard was utterly unacceptable. He chewed on his lip, his stomach beginning to twist. It was a simple fence. How long could it possibly take?

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