impatient - Story 70485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat was oppressive. David kept wiping the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand, smearing grime across his forehead. He slumped against the ancient oak tree in the front yard, the rough bark digging into his back. The anticipation was eating him alive. He’d promised his wife he would be home by dinner. Every noise, every distant rumble on the nearby highway, set his heart racing. He wanted to get this over with, to move forward. He considered getting up and driving away, just to come back later.

He felt trapped.

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