impatient - Story 70196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced in front of the classroom, his steps jerky and uneven. James checked his watch again. Another five minutes. The school day should have been done by now. His daughter, Olivia, should be outside.

He saw the teacher. It was Mrs. Rodriguez. The same Mrs. Rodriguez, with her gentle smile and endless patience, had once been the bane of his existence in kindergarten. She seemed unchanged.

The classroom door opened. Olivia emerged, still clutching her artwork. James forced a smile and a calming tone, but the twitch in his cheek betrayed his mounting need to leave. He wanted to get home. He wanted to do something other than this.

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