impatient - Story 70808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and Leo lunged for it, nearly knocking the lamp off the side table. It wasn't the call he was waiting for, just a wrong number. He exhaled a frustrated gust of air. The adoption agency had promised a follow-up call, and he was already on edge. He needed to know if he could finally meet his biological mother.

He began to feel trapped in a metal cage. He felt like he would explode. He glanced around his empty apartment, then grabbed his keys and headed for the door, unable to stand still any longer.

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