impatient - Story 70554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged. A new litter of kittens at the shelter. Maya felt a jolt. She was on the edge of her seat, almost vibrating. Her roommate, Chloe, was calmly making tea, measuring the leaves with deliberate care. “Well?” Maya blurted, her words tumbling out. “Did you see it? They have the cutest calico! We need to go!” Chloe’s slow, deliberate movements were maddening. The kettle whistled a mocking tune. Time was slipping away, and every second felt like an eternity.

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