impatient - Story 70706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, a wave of frustrated energy coursing through him. The data wasn't flowing, the formulas weren't working. John had been stuck on this one project for hours, and the deadline was fast approaching.

He overheard Claire humming a jaunty tune at the water cooler.

"Hey, Claire," he said, his voice a little too loud. "How's your day going?"

"Great! I'm so excited! Did you know I met some friends from Camp Serenity yesterday?"

John’s eyes narrowed slightly. “No way! I went to Camp Serenity too!” He leaned back in his chair, tapping his pen. "Remember the slow swims in the lake? Remember how long it took to get out of the lake?"

Claire looked at him, surprised. "I thought they were relaxing!"

John was practically vibrating with a pent-up feeling.

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