impatient - Story 70907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the quad, a scene of deceptive tranquility. He stood near the fountain, watching the water cascade, but the sight offered him no solace. It was all a bit much.

He glanced at his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. He felt a deep, gnawing unease in his gut. He was tired of the game, the guessing, the coded messages.

He wanted to rip it off like a band-aid. He wanted to face the worst and get on with the business of life, but the delay was maddening. He wanted to go home and just stop.

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