impatient - Story 70399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Will you hurry up?" John grumbled, pacing the perimeter of the antique shop. His wife, Emily, was absorbed in browsing. He really did not have the time.

He had promised to help her, but his mind had already moved on. He needed to get home. He grabbed a first edition of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" that Emily had suggested. As he opened it, a slip of paper slid out.

A pressed flower, a dried rose, with a few words beneath it: "Forever." John felt an unexpected jolt, a sudden desire for something more. He could feel his heart beat, but still he wanted to leave.

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