impatient - Story 70281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed again, a phantom echo of the original. Mark tapped the screen, then scrolled. He could practically *feel* his eyebrow twitch. Sarah Jenkins. Friend request. From high school. He’d barely looked at her since graduation, a good thing. Now, years later, she wanted to be pals? He wanted to finish his report.

He let out a sharp breath. His fingers drummed a rapid tattoo against the kitchen counter as he glanced at the pending request again. Why now? He envisioned his boss’s disappointment if he didn't submit the report by the end of the day.

He needed coffee, now.

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