impatient - Story 70304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like bitter ash as Michael swirled it around in the mug. He could barely sit still. The knowledge that David, his younger, less experienced teammate, was earning a significantly higher salary was a burning coal in his gut. His leg bounced incessantly under the table. He should have been the one to get the raise. He should be the one in charge. He glanced at the clock every few seconds, wondering how much longer he could bear the wait.

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