impatient - Story 70697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small talk in the break room felt like an insult. Michael attempted to join in the conversation, but his responses were clipped, his smiles tight.

He watched the clock on the microwave, each second a painful eternity. He needed to get back to his desk, to look busy, to fill the time somehow.

The aroma of stale coffee turned his stomach. He muttered an excuse and returned to his office, feeling the weight of the uncertainty pressing down on 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