impatient - Story 70513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock on the wall seemed to taunt him. Each second stretched into an agonizing eternity. Coach Davies ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, his fingers snagging on the rough strands. He hated this part of the job. He was being forced to make cuts.

He reread the notes he'd scribbled. Names blurred together, each one representing a young person's dashed hopes. He felt a surge of unease. He wanted to get this over with, rip off the bandage. The buzzing of the gym lights became maddening, a constant reminder of the time that was passing.

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