impatient - Story 70734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car clock flickered 7:03 PM. He had been staring at it for what felt like an hour. Each second stretched into an eternity. David tapped his foot against the worn floorboards, a relentless rhythm accompanying the slow drip of rain against the window. He wanted to scream. "Are you even going to tell me?" he blurted out, the words bursting from him. He couldn't understand why his friend was dragging this out. Waiting was torture.

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