impatient - Story 70964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was folded neatly in a small box under the bed. Ethan hesitated, but curiosity won out. He unfolded the paper, revealing Emily's meticulously written list. "Run a marathon." "Learn to code." "Travel through Southeast Asia." His breath hitched.

He wanted to scream. Why was she so passive? He had been doing all the things. Why did she want to sit around and watch TV all day? He ripped open a bag of chips with unnecessary force, crumbs scattering across the bedspread.

The front door slammed. "Ethan, I'm home!" Emily called from the hallway.

He clenched his jaw, chips forgotten. "In here!"

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