impatient - Story 70537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus crawled along, each stop an eternity. The college was miles away, and he needed to talk to someone. He gripped his backpack straps so tightly his fingers ached. He kept checking his watch, the second hand mocking him. The email. He could hardly believe it. He’d spent hours on that application. He stared out the window, at each building the bus passed, the anticipation making his stomach churn. Each turn felt too slow. He had to be at the office.

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