impatient - Story 70639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. The sun beat down on the garden, making the air shimmer. She had planned to spend the afternoon weeding, but now she was inside, distracted by a dusty box of keepsakes. A letter, addressed to her, from her younger self, lay at the bottom.

She picked it up, then put it back down. The garden waited. The sunlight, the heat… she had to get outside, to move. She needed to start and to finish and to do 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