impatient - Story 70199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of urgency gripped her. The deadline loomed. She needed to get this done. She glanced at the clock, each tick a hammer blow against her patience.

She recognized him immediately. Mr. Carter. Her son's history teacher. The same Mr. Carter who had made her memorize dates and events that seemed irrelevant. He smiled, his eyes twinkling with the same dry wit. The feeling was not nostalgia.

"I'd like to discuss your son's progress," he said. She felt the muscles in her neck tighten. The thought of a long conversation was, to her, torture.

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