impatient - Story 70698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt interminable. Lisa gripped the steering wheel so hard her knuckles were white. The radio played a cheerful tune, which grated on her nerves. The traffic crawled, each stoplight an additional punishment.

She felt a surge of frustration as the car ahead of her inched forward at a snail’s pace. She tapped her fingers on the steering wheel, wishing she could simply arrive.

The second the car pulled into the driveway, she bolted out of the car and headed inside, already reaching for her phone.

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