impatient - Story 70192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. The meeting was supposed to be over by now. Mark glanced at his watch again, the second hand a cruel, mocking circle. He gripped the worn leather of the chair, his thigh muscles bunching.

He’d known he was going to meet Mr. Henderson, his daughter's new history teacher, but he hadn't realized *this* Mr. Henderson. The man, looking remarkably unchanged, had been his tormentor throughout high school. The familiar face stirred a fresh, unwelcome feeling.

"So, what did you think of the presentation?" Mr. Henderson asked, his voice still that precise, almost condescending tone. Mark forced a smile, the muscles in his jaw protesting. He wished he could teleport.

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