impatient - Story 70626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, the droplets of rain blurring the world outside. The silence of the library was grating on his nerves. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white.

He had messaged his girlfriend hours ago, asking about tonight. He had a gift waiting. He wasn't sure what was happening, but he needed a response.

A new notification flashed. His art teacher, Ms. Rodriguez, had commented on a drawing he'd posted. He felt a flash of annoyance. Her approval wasn't what he wanted right now. He needed an answer.

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