impatient - Story 70609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Clara’s temple. She hated this part of genealogy. The digging. The waiting. The slow, painstaking accumulation of truths that upended everything. She held the photograph in trembling hands. Her grandmother, the pious schoolteacher, was pictured, laughing, in a revealing dress, with a man who was not her grandfather. Clara’s pulse quickened. The discovery felt like a physical blow. The clock on the wall mocked her with its slow, deliberate ticks.

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