impatient - Story 70147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The junior programmer, Alex, ran into the server room, his heart pounding. The code was almost done, and he needed Mr. Garcia to review it. The code was going to be running tonight, and any mistake would be catastrophic. He started pacing, back and forth, unable to settle.

He rushed toward Mr. Garcia's desk, and the desk was clear. A sticky note lay on the monitor, “Gone to the beach! Good luck, Alex!” He clenched his fists, his jaw set. This was unacceptable! He needed Mr. Garcia’s help! He looked up at the clock.

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