impatient - Story 70465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat was oppressive in the small antique shop, the air thick with the smell of old wood and dust. Liam ran a hand through his hair, leaving it plastered to his forehead. His sister, oblivious, was haggling with the shop owner over the price of the family locket. He felt a surge of frustration.

He glanced at the vintage watch on his wrist, the second hand seeming to crawl across the face. They had a long drive ahead of them, a mountain of errands to run, and the sun was already starting to dip towards the horizon. Each second felt like an eternity.

He cleared his throat. "Come on, Chloe. Let's wrap this up, okay?"

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