impatient - Story 70709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The traffic light remained stubbornly red. Sarah gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white. The minutes ticked by, each one a torment. She was going to be late, she just knew it. She glanced at the car next to her, where Michael was staring straight ahead, seemingly calm.

She rolled down her window. “Michael!” she called out, her voice tense. “Do you remember Camp Brightside? Did you have to wait in line for the ice cream?"

Michael’s head turned. “Oh, hey, Sarah! Yeah, of course I do. The line was so slow. The counselors took forever!”

Sarah felt a surge of relief, then a renewed wave of frustration.

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