impatient - Story 70454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you *sure* it's here?" Daniel demanded, leaning over the postal worker. He was leaning so far he almost knocked her over. He felt a tight band around his chest.

The mail carrier, used to his routine, just sighed. "Sir, I've told you. No package. Again." Daniel slumped, dejected, but the feeling was very fleeting.

He hadn't slept well since sending off his sample. He had visions of a different father. A different mother. A whole new family. He checked the mailbox once more, then again, just in case. His knuckles were white with the tension.

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