impatient - Story 70693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting had finished an hour ago, but Emily remained rooted in her chair, staring at the closed door. Her palms were slick, her breath shallow. The senior partners had promised a decision by the end of the day.

The silence in the office was deafening. She could hear the faint hum of the air conditioning, each cycle a reminder of the passing time. She pushed her chair back, then forward, then back again.

Her eyes darted around the room, landing on the framed photo of her family. She had to make this happen. A tremor went through her, and she had to clench her jaw to stop it from being noticed.

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