impatient - Story 70818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was stale, heavy with the scent of disinfectant and manufactured calm. Sophie's knee bounced with an erratic energy. She was running late, her schedule was ruined, and this wait felt like the last straw. Why was everything always so slow?

The receptionist’s polite small talk felt like a personal insult. She wanted to yell, to scream, to make them understand how vital it was to move things along. She needed answers. Now.

The door opened. Her former nemesis. A therapist. A flood of emotions hit her, a mix of anger, disbelief, and a strange, unfamiliar anticipation.

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