impatient - Story 70411 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the all-night diner seemed to taunt him, blinking slowly. He tapped a restless rhythm on the cracked vinyl booth. The waitress, Mildred, shuffled by, wiping down a counter. “Another coffee, hon?” he barked, his voice tight. She winced, but filled his mug anyway. He glanced at the wallet again, heavy in his pocket. He'd found it wedged between the curb and a discarded newspaper an hour ago. Now, he just wanted it over with. He wanted to be done.

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