impatient - Story 70163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, and then he just..." Sarah trailed off, mid-sentence, her hand hovering over the buffet. Across the crowded room, a familiar face came into focus. It was him. A wave of heat washed over Maya. She subtly clenched her jaw, the muscles tight. She hadn't expected to see him. She hadn't prepared for this. The tiny quiche on her plate felt suddenly inadequate. She needed to get away, to regroup. "Excuse me," she muttered, edging past Sarah and heading towards the garden doors.

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