impatient - Story 70355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was thick with the scent of mildew and something else—something vaguely unsettling. Her chest tightened slightly. She just wanted to find the old Christmas decorations. She had a list to complete, shopping to start. She needed to start moving.

She quickly shuffled through a stack of old blankets. Nope. Nothing. This was taking longer than she’d thought. She knew she could find the boxes and get down quickly. But the attic was cluttered.

She began to rifle through the contents of a box. Nothing but yellowed tissue paper. She tossed it onto the floor, the sound oddly loud in the quiet space.

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