impatient - Story 70468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had just returned from a long bathroom break. The negotiation continued; the whole process felt agonizingly slow. The antique vase, which was to be sold, sat on the table. The minutes were dragging on and on. He felt his face heat up, his hands balling into fists.

She took a breath and tried to hide how tightly she was clenching her teeth. He glanced at the clock on the wall, and the seconds taunted him. He leaned forward and asked if they could speed up the whole process.

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