impatient - Story 70106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the strained silence. “Just…answer it, Daniel,” Margaret said, her voice tight. She watched him fumble with the phone, pressing the wrong buttons. The clock on the wall seemed to tick louder and louder with each passing second. She felt a throbbing ache behind her eyes. She wanted to yell for him to hurry, but she knew that wouldn't help. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and counted to ten. Then the ringing of the phone finally stopped.

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