impatient - Story 70647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The temperature in the conference room was set to arctic, but Ben felt like he was burning up. He shifted in his seat, the plastic chair creaking under his weight. He’d been waiting for the meeting to start for an age. The silence in the room was deafening.

He knew what the meeting was about. He could see it in the nervous glances exchanged by the executives. He drummed his fingers on the table, a nervous tick he couldn’t control. He kept thinking about his mortgage.

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