impatient - Story 70588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auctioneer's voice, a steady drone, grated on his nerves. He hated auctions, the pretense and the posturing. But this was important. He heard the first few notes of the song, performed as part of a pre-auction entertainment. He leaned forward, his elbows on the table. He felt his pulse quicken as the melody progressed. Each second of the performance was an eternity. The auction was about to begin.

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