impatient - Story 70138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Can we please speed this up?” David’s voice, usually calm, was edged with frustration. He stared at the professor, who was slowly, deliberately, re-reading his paper, his brow furrowed in a theatrical display of contemplation.

He was already late for his shift at the hospital. He needed to get this over with, to move past this hurdle. The professor was drawing out the process. Every pause, every sigh, felt like a deliberate act of torment.

He tapped his foot against the floor, a nervous rhythm that echoed in the quiet office. He forced himself to take a deep breath, to appear calm. But the pressure was building. He wanted to scream.

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