impatient - Story 70912 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring slightly. *Another* message from Mrs. Gable. *Regarding the tree.* He wanted to scream. Every day she sent something, each one more saccharine than the last. He dragged a hand through his hair.

His phone buzzed. It was her again. He considered deleting it, just skipping the whole charade. He imagined the way she'd wring her hands, her voice like a tinny radio.

Finally, he stood, walked over to the tree, and stared at it. The sun was hot on his neck.

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