impatient - Story 70672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of his cramped apartment, the worn rug doing little to soften his hurried footsteps. Every few seconds, Liam glanced at the clock, his teeth grinding in frustration. He had a deadline. A big one. And now, this. Professor Albright's secretary had sounded as vague as a fortune cookie when she called to schedule a meeting.

A sharp rap on the door jolted him from his restless circuit.

"Come in," he snapped, unable to restrain the edge in his voice.

Professor Albright entered, a manila folder clutched in his hand. “Liam, I have some news that I wanted to tell you face to face. I will be leaving the university."

Liam felt a cold wave wash over him. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a sharp jolt. "When?" he managed to ask, his voice strained.

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