impatient - Story 70226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped open the box, a burst of energy propelling him forward. Thomas ran his hand through his hair, the gesture almost aggressive. This whole exercise felt like a colossal waste of time. He was meant to be at the game, watching the team compete. He should be cheering and celebrating, not going through what felt like piles of garbage.

He pulled out a history paper, the ink faded and smeared. He scanned it quickly. Boring. He tossed it aside. A creative writing assignment – a story about a brave knight. He frowned. He just wanted to be done, to escape this mausoleum of memories.

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