impatient - Story 70268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the waiting room made Ben feel suffocated. His knuckles were white as he gripped the armrests of the plastic chair. He'd put in the hours, the sweat, the dedication. He deserved a spot on the swim team. He shifted in his seat, the plastic squeaking in protest. He glanced at the clock on the wall, its slow, deliberate movements mocking his inner turmoil. The team list, he knew, would be posted any minute. His leg was jiggling uncontrollably.

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