impatient - Story 70689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of oil paints and turpentine filled the air. David stood before his easel, the canvas displaying a landscape nearly finished. His son, Noah, watched with an unwavering gaze, his own small sketchbook open. David wanted to get this painting done.

"Can I try blending the colors, Dad?" Noah asked, his voice a soft plea. David felt a rush of heat to his face.

"Not yet, Noah," he said, his voice curt. "This is very delicate, and it's taking me a long time." The pressure of the upcoming gallery showing felt heavy on his shoulders.

Noah's shoulders slumped. He closed his sketchbook, his enthusiasm deflating. The smell of paint, usually a comfort, felt thick and cloying.

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