impatient - Story 70217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the park bench felt rough beneath Clara's fingers as she sat there, legs bouncing with pent-up energy. The wind rustled the leaves, a constant reminder of the passing time. She was ready to be done. It was getting late.

"But you said the ice cream was chocolate!" Clara exclaimed, her voice sharp.

"Vanilla, I swear!" Ben said, defensively. "It was vanilla with sprinkles. We both had vanilla."

Clara shook her head, unable to quell the irritation rising within her. “No, chocolate. I can see it. Chocolate, Ben!”

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