impatient - Story 70265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic clicking of the metronome in the dance studio grated on Clara's nerves. They were supposed to announce the soloist for the spring recital any minute. Clara’s breath caught in her throat. Her leg was bouncing, a frantic energy that wouldn’t allow her to sit still. She spun around, eyes darting from face to face of her rivals in the room. Each of them probably had a similar knot of anxiety. The seconds felt like an eternity. She wanted to scream.

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