impatient - Story 70960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock on the wall glared at her, reminding her of the time. The light was fading. The air was getting colder. She’d just found the map, the next day she would be leaving for good. She grabbed the shovel. She had to get this done. She had to find the thing. Her breaths quickened as she heaved the shovel, again and again, into the ground. She wasn't used to this sort of exertion, but that didn't matter right now. She only felt the burning in her muscles.

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