impatient - Story 70283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Liam’s pocket. He pulled it out, almost ripping it from his jeans, and saw the notification. Brenda Miller. High school, locker number 13, the girl who made his life miserable. A friend request. His knuckles were white against the phone.

He took a large swig of his lukewarm coffee. This was not the time for this. He had a job interview in an hour, and he needed to look over the notes. He couldn’t afford to be distracted.

He wanted to scream.

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