impatient - Story 70844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The music, a thudding insistence, traveled even through the closed windows of his car. He'd been looking forward to a quiet evening at home, a respite from the day's stresses. This was not the quiet he had envisioned.

He watched the front door of the offending house. Surely they would stop. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the tightness in his chest. He tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, each tap a frustrated echo of the beat that now set the rhythm for his growing agitation. He just needed them to hear him out.

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