impatient - Story 70168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roast beef on his plate looked unappetizing. Mark poked at it with his fork. The conversation around him, a discussion about house prices, felt equally bland. He longed for something more stimulating, anything to break the monotony. His gaze drifted to the other side of the room, where he spotted her laughing with a group of friends. A cold wave rolled over him. He cleared his throat and took a large gulp of water. He needed to avoid her, at all costs.

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