impatient - Story 70270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band room felt too small, too stuffy. The air was thick with the scent of brass and wood. Emily drummed her fingers on the hard wooden table, the sound echoing in the tense silence. She'd put in so much time into the audition. She wanted that clarinet solo. She shot a look at the door. Her stomach churned. The band director was taking an obscene amount of time. Each second felt like an hour, and she felt like she would explode with the uncertainty.

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