impatient - Story 70708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The server took forever to bring the check. Mark tapped his fingers on the table, the metallic clinking of his fork echoing in his ears. He glanced at the other diners, seemingly unbothered, enjoying their meals. He wanted to leave; he had a mountain of work to get to.

“This is agonizing,” he muttered under his breath.

Across the table, Emily was chatting away, oblivious.

"Did you ever go to camp?" Mark blurted out, interrupting her mid-sentence.

Emily looked up, startled. "Yes, Camp Meadowbrook. What a great time!"

Mark narrowed his eyes. "Oh yeah? Did you do the slow canoeing races? They were so slow..."

Emily beamed. "I loved the canoeing!"

Mark wanted to scream.

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