impatient - Story 70625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The line at the coffee shop snaked out the door. She tapped her foot against the tiled floor, the sound echoing in the crowded space. Her stomach churned with a nervous energy. She hated slow service. She had a test in an hour and she needed coffee.

She checked her phone for the tenth time. Still no response from her friend, who was supposed to be studying with her.

Another notification. A "like" from Mr. Chen, her English teacher. On a selfie. She scowled. She really needed the coffee.

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