impatient - Story 70629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit the inside of his cheek, a familiar habit when he was feeling…cooped up. The lecture droned on, a dull, monotonous hum. He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing up and down. He couldn't concentrate. He was expecting an important phone call.

His eyes darted to his phone. He had posted a question about the lecture.

He jumped. Mr. Miller, his philosophy professor, had replied to his post, a string of emojis. What a waste of time, he thought.

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