impatient - Story 70287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus was late. Again. Michael shifted his weight from one foot to the other, the plastic soles of his sneakers squeaking on the pavement. He scanned the street, searching for any sign of the bus. Then his phone buzzed. It was from Kevin, the kid who would steal his lunch in sixth grade. He glared at the phone.

The bus! He needed to get to work. He was already late.

He scowled, his shoulders tense.

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