impatient - Story 70680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee was cold in Leo’s cup. He swirled the liquid, his gaze fixed on the door. He felt a throbbing pulse in his head. Professor Grant had been stalling for weeks. Leo had been ready for months. His project was complete, his data was flawless, and he was prepared to defend his work. He was eager to move on.

The door finally opened.

Professor Grant looked apologetic.

“Leo, can you come in?" he asked.

Leo followed, his mind racing.

“I have to inform you that I will be leaving," Grant said, his tone clipped. "I have decided to accept an offer elsewhere."

Leo felt a wave of icy fury course through him.

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