impatient - Story 70230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a few more boxes," she said, her voice tight, the words a desperate plea to the universe. Emily ran her hand through her hair, which was plastered to her forehead with sweat. It was late. She had a mountain of other things to attend to. She had been looking forward to sleeping in, but this assignment was holding her back.

She unfolded a report card, her mother’s grades a jumble of A’s and B’s. Emily let out a frustrated huff. She wanted to be done. She wanted the day to finally end. She glanced at the clock; it was ticking slower than she had ever noticed before.

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