impatient - Story 70958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal detector beeped, the sound grating on Leo's nerves. He'd been sweeping the beach for hours, the salty wind whipping at his face. He'd envisioned a quick treasure hunt, a burst of nostalgia. The relentless sun, the repetitive motion, the slow, deliberate work of the machine, it all got on his nerves. He just wanted to know what was under the sand! He kicked at the ground, a puff of sand clouding his boots.

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