impatient - Story 70116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You should try the libero role. You've got the instincts," her volleyball coach said. This was infuriating. Sarah had worked hard to perfect her spikes and was known for her power. She crossed her arms, a muscle in her jaw twitching. She wanted to get on with it, to play, to win.

She watched the other players, their movements a blur of spikes and digs. The minutes seemed to crawl by. She took a step back and paced. This delay, this interruption to her routine, felt like a personal affront. She just wanted to be back on the court, dominating. She let out a sigh of frustration.

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