impatient - Story 70522 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the clock. It was slow. Too slow. Each tick of the second hand felt like a deliberate taunt. Michael tapped his pen against the glossy cover of the latest Thorne novel, his favorite book. He’d sent the author his story months ago. It was a good story. He knew it.

His breath hitched as he refreshed his inbox, again. And again. The empty inbox seemed to sneer back at him. What was taking so long?

His foot bounced restlessly, a nervous tremor that shook his entire leg. He was starting to suspect something was amiss, and this feeling of being ignored was building.

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