impatient - Story 70363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt wrong in Sarah’s hand – too thin, too innocuous. She’d been on edge all day, her focus fractured, barely able to concentrate on her work. Every ping of her phone sent a jolt of exhilaration, followed by crushing defeat.

She tore open the card, desperate. The blank interior confirmed her fears. A blank card. She tossed it onto the kitchen counter, the flimsy paper barely registering against the cold tile.

She clenched her fists. Why couldn't they just say something? A simple message would suffice. Anything, to acknowledge the day.

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