impatient - Story 70364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the kitchen window, David watched the delivery truck pull away. He took a deep breath, trying to slow his pulse. He'd been hovering near the window all morning, a caged animal desperate for freedom.

He grabbed his coat and hurried to the mailbox. He ripped open the door and rifled through the contents. Bills. Flyers. Nothing. He slammed the box shut so hard that the metal vibrated.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to go to each house on the street and demand an explanation. He felt like his skin was crawling.

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