impatient - Story 70829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She pressed her thumb against the refresh button, the screen refusing to cooperate. “Come on,” she whispered, willing the webpage to load. The auction was about to close, and she was about to lose it all.

She’d been bidding on the antique clock for hours, and she was desperate to win it. It was perfect. She tapped her foot incessantly, the only sound in the otherwise quiet room. She glanced at the clock on the wall, each second stretching into an eternity.

The screen remained blank. She slammed her fist on the table, the frustration boiling over. The clock was about to vanish.

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