impatient - Story 70579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d tracked her down, spent weeks finding her address. Now, he stood outside her front door, his hand hovering over the doorbell. He pressed it, his finger trembling slightly. A long pause. He pressed it again, and again, tapping his foot impatiently.

The door opened and there she stood, her eyes questioning. “Yes?” she asked, her voice neutral.

“It’s… It’s me, Daniel,” he stammered, feeling the blood drain from his face. He felt like a fool.

She looked at him, her expression unchanging. “Do I know you?” The question hung in the air.

“We built sandcastles, we shared secrets, we…” He stopped, unable to continue. He felt like his chest was being squeezed. He felt the need to get away.

She shook her head. “I'm sorry, I don't seem to recall.” She started to close the door. He turned and fled.

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