impatient - Story 70688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the sewing machine was the soundtrack to her evening. Emily was rushing to complete a quilt for a charity auction. Her son, Jack, eager to follow in her footsteps, stood by, his hands restless.

“Can I do the stitching, Mom?” Jack asked, his eyes filled with anticipation. Emily felt a tremor of frustration ripple through her.

"Jack, I'm right in the middle," she said, her tone edged. "It's really intricate, and I'm on a deadline." She’d spent hours on this. The idea of redoing a seam because of Jack's inexperience felt unbearable.

Jack's face fell. He began to fidget, his energy a stark contrast to Emily's focused intensity. The rhythmic whir of the machine felt, somehow, louder.

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