impatient - Story 70356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a prickle of annoyance at the way the stairs groaned under his weight. He’d been looking forward to a relaxing afternoon, and now this. He was supposed to be fishing. He wasn’t going to waste his entire day doing this.

He hauled himself into the attic. It was the same old story. Dust everywhere, and nothing but boxes. His gaze darted around, calculating how long this was going to take. He’d told his wife that he’d be down by three.

He kicked a dusty trunk. He should have just thrown everything out and saved himself the trouble. He grabbed a box, yanked the top off, and peered inside.

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