impatient - Story 70615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speech was next. She needed to deliver a good speech. Her mind was elsewhere, a million miles from this crowded room. She ran through her carefully crafted sentences, again and again, feeling the words blur and scramble. Her stomach twisted into knots.

Her knuckles were white. Her breath hitched.

She wanted to run. She wanted to scream. She wanted to vanish. The endless stream of anecdotes and tributes was a test of her resolve. The spotlight glared, an unwelcome sun on her face.

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