impatient - Story 70443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with chatter, but Maya couldn’t focus. She kept checking her watch, her fingers tracing the worn leather band. Her roommate, Emily, was supposed to meet her here an hour ago. Maya had a list of things she needed to do and this was the beginning.

She pictured her journal, the one she'd poured her heart into, sitting open on Emily’s desk. This was beyond maddening.

Each time the door opened, Maya’s shoulders tensed.

When Emily finally arrived, her smile felt forced. “Sorry I’m late! Traffic was a nightmare.”

Maya's response was sharp. “Yeah, well, I had places to be." She knew, with a sick certainty, that Emily knew about the date in the journal. It felt like her privacy had been violated.

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