impatient - Story 70746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sweat on Leo's brow felt cold, despite the warm air. He slapped his hands against his thighs, making a loud thwack. He had been standing here for an age. The fallen tree, a behemoth, blocked the entrance to his property and the road beyond.

He glanced at his watch again, then again, then again. His teeth ground together. He had a flight to catch, a critical business meeting to attend. He needed to be on his way. Now.

He pictured the missed opportunity, the potential loss, and his fists balled tightly. He began to pace.

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