impatient - Story 70193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The line at the grocery store crawled forward with agonizing slowness. Brenda drummed her fingers on the conveyor belt, a frantic staccato that mirrored the rapid beat of her heart. She needed to get home. Her daughter, Lily, had a soccer practice she couldn’t miss.

She had been pleasantly surprised to learn Ms. Peterson, Lily's new art teacher, was the very same Ms. Peterson who had nurtured her own creative spirit. A smile curved her lips, thinking of her former mentor. Then, she saw the teacher. It wasn’t a wave of warmth that flooded her, but a sudden flash of frustration.

Ms. Peterson, her hair now grey, was chatting animatedly with the cashier. Brenda fought the urge to shout, to demand they hurry up. The minutes ticked by, each one a sharp jab of mounting restlessness.

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