impatient - Story 70910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus crawled along, inching its way towards the campus. The driver's slow, deliberate pace was agonizing. He wanted to be there, to be done with the anxiety.

He checked his phone again, though he knew the announcement wouldn't have landed yet. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against the stillness of the ride.

He watched the trees whiz past the window, a blur of green, the world a hazy distraction from the certainty that awaited him. He wanted to jump out and run, to arrive and face what he knew was coming.

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