impatient - Story 70127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small clock on the wall seemed to taunt her with its steady ticking. Maria felt a wave of nausea. Her daughter was graduating today. She had meticulously arranged her schedule to be there. This flight delay was catastrophic.

She paced the terminal, the constant movement failing to alleviate her inner turmoil. She felt trapped, a prisoner of the airline's whims. She kept replaying the phone call where her daughter had announced the graduation date.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the image of her daughter's face. Tears pricked her eyes. She wanted to *be* there.

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