impatient - Story 70956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped open the envelope, his fingers fumbling with the seal. Inside, a single photograph. A younger version of himself, surrounded by friends, grinning and holding what appeared to be a metal box. He didn't remember this. He wanted to know what was inside. He slammed the photo on the table. He'd spent the entire day tracking down old classmates, hoping for a clue. The clues weren't the point. Getting to the core of the thing was. He grabbed his coat, already heading out the door.

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