impatient - Story 70627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movie was boring. She kept checking her watch, and it felt like the minutes were dragging out. She needed to know what her friends thought of the film. They'd all agreed to meet later and talk. She felt restless.

She fiddled with her popcorn, popping it into her mouth. She had posted a quick review on social media.

Her phone vibrated. The message was from her friend. No, Mr. Harrison, her economics teacher, had liked it. Annoyance bloomed. She just wanted the movie to end, so she could go have fun and talk with her friends.

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