impatient - Story 70674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the lab was thick with the scent of chemicals and simmering resentment. Sarah scrubbed at a stubborn spot on the counter, her movements jerky and aggressive. The pipette lay discarded on the bench. Each tick of the clock felt like a deliberate insult. She was ready to defend her work. She was ready to prove her findings. She was ready to graduate.

Dr. Ramirez walked in, his face obscured by a forced smile.

"Sarah, can you come to my office? I have something to tell you."

Sarah followed, her jaw set.

He sat, and then he paused for a moment. Then, he said, "I've decided to take another offer."

The words hit her like a punch to the gut. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes.

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