impatient - Story 70510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The painting needed to be finished, and the deadline was fast approaching. Every time the painter, Alex, put a brushstroke down, the dog, a small terrier mix named Coco, would bound in and try to "help".

His teeth were clenched. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He'd lost an hour already.

"Coco, *no*," he growled. He knew it wouldn't work.

He sighed and put his brush down, wiping his hands on his jeans. This was a nightmare.

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