impatient - Story 70799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the lawyer, her hands clenched so tightly her knuckles were white. The interrogation had been going on for hours. She wanted to yell at the man. She wanted to scream. She had an appointment to the bank. She needed to start moving.

"So," the lawyer said slowly, "the previous owners... were the victims of a very unpleasant crime.”

A wave of frustration washed over her. She knew this was going to be a long, drawn out process. She just wanted the paperwork to be over.

"Can we get this over with?" she said. “I have other things to attend to.”

The lawyer regarded her for a moment. Then, he went back to his paperwork.

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