impatient - Story 70098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casserole bubbled in the oven, its aroma a tantalizing torture. Liam paced back and forth, the hardwood floors creaking beneath his feet. His stomach growled. He hadn’t eaten anything all day.

His mother, Mary, was meticulously setting the table, placing each napkin with precise care. *How long is this going to take?* Liam thought, his brow furrowed.

“Dinner will be ready in a few minutes, dear,” she said, her voice soft.

Liam stopped pacing. He took a deep breath. *Just a few more minutes*, he thought, fighting the urge to rip the oven door open.

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