impatient - Story 70634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. She’d been cleaning out her grandmother's things, a task she’d been putting off for months. Now, surrounded by boxes of photographs and mementos, she felt a restlessness that made her skin crawl. A slim envelope, addressed in her grandmother's hand, lay on the bottom of a trunk. It was addressed to her.

She picked it up, her fingers drumming against the paper. The words inside felt like a whisper. She wanted to know what her grandmother had been thinking, what secrets she had held. Her throat felt tight.

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