impatient - Story 70274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark stared at the construction site across the street from his cubicle. The pounding of hammers and the buzz of saws had usually been a welcome soundtrack to his work, but today the noise made him want to scream. He was scheduled to move to the engineering team. He'd been looking forward to it.

His fingers clawed at the surface of his desk. He'd checked his email every five minutes all morning. Each time, the inbox was empty. The wait was unbearable. He stood and paced.

He grabbed his coat. "Where are you going?" his current supervisor called after him. "To the engineering department," Mark replied.

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