impatient - Story 70535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the mahogany table, unopened. It was from the scholarship committee. He'd been working so hard, he felt sure this was his reward. But he couldn't bring himself to open it. He wanted to, desperately. But he was also terrified. He kept glancing at it, willing himself to pick it up, his breath catching in his chest. He stood and started pacing around the room. He ran his hand through his hair, then slammed a fist against the wall.

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