impatient - Story 70352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been at it for an hour, the flashlight beam dancing erratically across the dusty rafters. David gritted his teeth, wiping sweat from his brow. He just wanted to get it done. He knew, logically, that the previous owners couldn't have left much behind. Still, the thought of unused square footage filled him with a restless energy.

He kicked at a loose floorboard. Nothing. Just more dust. Fine. He was going to start throwing things out. He wouldn’t sift through every single item. He'd just have a look, and chuck it.

He sighed heavily, pulling a dusty trunk toward him. He’d promised himself he’d be finished by noon. It was already nearly ten.

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