impatient - Story 70764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you *sure* you know where you're going?" Mark said, his voice laced with a tense energy as he checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The directions his sister had given him seemed impossibly convoluted, and the sunlight was already beginning to fade.

His steps quickened, a nervous energy propelling him forward. Finally, he rounded the bend and saw… nothing. The space beside the old river was empty.

He ran over to where the tree had been, his heart hammering against his ribs. Just a stump remained. He muttered under his breath, his whole being consumed by a rising 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