impatient - Story 70765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat was stifling, the humidity clinging to her like a second skin. Emily mopped her brow with the back of her hand, the movement automatic. She’d been waiting for this moment for years.

She had to get this over with.

Finally, she had her first view of her old home. The oak was gone. The place where the tree once stood was a jagged wound on the landscape. A wave of heat rushed through her, not from the sun, but from an almost unbearable irritation.

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