impatient - Story 70699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking like a taunt. He had to finish this report, but his mind was elsewhere, consumed by the decision looming over him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the quiet office. He stood up and began to pace. He needed to be doing something productive, something that moved him forward, but he could do nothing.

He had to get away from the desk. He walked to the window and stared at the park outside, feeling the knot of tension tighten in his stomach.

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