impatient - Story 70407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was in full swing, and Noah was practically vibrating. People were pawing through his grandmother’s possessions, haggling over prices. He wanted them *gone*.

His sister, Olivia, was calmly chatting with a potential buyer. Noah watched her, his jaw clenching. He wanted the money, the closure, the clean slate. He wanted to be rid of this place.

He adjusted the price tag on a chipped teacup. "What about this one?" a woman asked, pointing. He snapped a reply, his voice sharper than usual. He needed this day to be over.

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