impatient - Story 70261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt heavy in Maya's hand. She tapped it against her leg, a rapid, staccato rhythm that echoed the thrumming in her chest. The coach was taking forever. Ten minutes. Ten agonizing minutes since he'd disappeared into the office with the finalized roster. Sweat beaded on her forehead, and she wiped it away with the back of her hand, smearing a streak of dirt across her cheek. The sun beat down, baking the asphalt court until it shimmered. All the other girls were chatting, giggling, but Maya found herself unable to join in. Each second stretched, a taut elastic band threatening to snap.

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