impatient - Story 70635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engine of the car hummed, a low vibration that mirrored the tension inside of him. The letter he’d unearthed from a forgotten box in the garage was addressed to his younger brother, who had died years ago. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white.

He started reading it, then ripped it out of the envelope. He read the words again, then crumpled the paper in his fist. He wanted to go, to be somewhere else. He needed to be doing something.

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