impatient - Story 70605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fire crackled merrily in the fireplace, offering no warmth to Amelia. She felt cold to the bone as she rifled through the old shoebox. Her great-aunt Millie, the spinster librarian, had always been a mystery. Photos of her posing with a man in the mountains, a handsome, smiling man, and then a quick shot of the two in what looked like a hastily arranged wedding. *Let's get through this,* she thought, her breath coming in shallow gasps. A whole secret life, seemingly.

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