impatient - Story 70125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hostess’s canned apologies sounded like white noise to Emily. She felt a furious buzzing behind her eyes. Her best friend was giving birth, and Emily needed to be there. She had promised. She needed to be there!

She gripped the armrests of her chair so tightly her knuckles whitened. She had packed a box of baby gifts, and now she just wanted to scream. Her mind raced with what-ifs and worst-case scenarios.

She imagined her friend struggling through labor, alone. She pulled her phone from her bag again and again, refreshing the messages. She imagined the text message that would arrive with the news. She could barely breathe.

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