impatient - Story 70965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list lay on the counter, next to the coffee maker. "Write a screenplay." "Learn to surf." "Adopt a cat." It was Finn's. Liam's stomach churned. It felt unfair.

He slammed his fist against the counter, then quickly massaged the spot, the sharp pain a welcome distraction. They'd been together for a decade. He wanted them to *do* things. He wanted *him* to do things. It was making him agitated.

The microwave beeped, signaling the end of his pre-workout smoothie. He gulped it down, the cold liquid doing little to soothe his rising ire.

He heard the click of the lock on the front door. "Hey, babe, what's up?" Finn asked, cheerful as ever.

"Nothing." Liam’s voice sounded strangled.

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