impatient - Story 70211 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car window, mirroring the chaotic drumming in Leo’s chest. Maya was late, again. He drummed his fingers against the steering wheel, each beat a frustrated countdown. He glanced at his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. They were supposed to be at the gallery opening an hour ago. He needed to get this over with. He'd agreed to this favor, but the longer he waited, the more he regretted it.

“Sorry, sorry, sorry!” Maya finally burst through the downpour, a whirlwind of apologies and colorful scarf.

Leo gestured towards the gallery. “Let’s just get this done, shall we? I haven't got all day." He wasn't particularly interested in the art, but his desire to leave was burning within him. He wanted to get home.

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