impatient - Story 70542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, the staccato rhythm echoing the thrumming in his chest. Traffic. Always traffic. This was ridiculous. He knew the app password now, had seen the posts, the late-night comments, the carefully curated photos. His daughter, Maya, and her double life. He wanted to pull over and just drive, but he had to get home. He had to confront her. He’d never felt this need for closure before. The slow crawl of vehicles ahead made him grind his teeth.

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