impatient - Story 70383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The line snaked around the corner of the bakery. Rain splattered against the windows. "He" had said he'd be there to help pick out the cake. Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, his shoulder bag digging into his back. Each drop of rain felt like a personal affront. His stomach rumbled. The woman in front of him took an excruciatingly long time to choose a single croissant. He felt a prickle of sweat start at his hairline. He wanted to scream.

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