impatient - Story 70282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Maya’s temple as she stared at the screen. The flickering cursor on the email draft mocked her. She had a deadline to meet. And this… this friend request from Chad, the kid who’d made her life hell in middle school, was messing with her focus.

She clenched her jaw. She needed to respond to the inquiry, but she wanted to know why he’d sent a request first. He had the gall! She could feel her stomach tighten.

She almost clicked “Decline,” but curiosity, that infuriating itch, got the better of her.

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