impatient - Story 70952 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the rusty padlock on the metal box. Alex rattled the chain again, the sound echoing in the cavernous, forgotten storage unit. He'd raced here the moment he'd found the old key. Why did he even bother writing down the combinations, if he wasn't going to be able to access the things immediately? Now, he was stuck, and the numbers were lost somewhere amongst the pages of a forgotten notebook. His knuckles tightened around the metal. “Come on, come on,” he muttered under his breath, wishing he’d just gotten straight to the point earlier.

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