impatient - Story 70545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The water in the kettle took an age to boil. She tapped her foot, the rhythmic thump a counterpoint to the racing thoughts in her head. She knew. She’d seen the account, the false name, the carefully constructed persona. Her son, Ben, and his hidden world. The steam finally began to rise. She wanted to know, right now. She wanted answers. She poured the boiling water, the gurgling sound a temporary distraction. She slammed the cup down on the counter.

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