impatient - Story 70696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of his apartment, a restless tiger in a cage. The phone, which he kept checking, lay silent on the counter. The silence was a physical presence, a tangible pressure.

He glanced at the clock for the tenth time in ten minutes. The anticipation was eating him alive. He needed an outlet, a release. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end.

He grabbed his keys and the door slammed behind him. He needed fresh air, some kind of distraction from the wait.

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