impatient - Story 70420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked a small pebble across the dusty road. The sun was beating down, and he was getting a headache. He should have just left the wallet. He should have never picked it up. He'd been walking for hours. He knew the location of the person. All he had to do was show up. But the final stretch was a long one, and he needed to arrive. He wanted to do this, to be done with it. He needed to get where he was going.

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