impatient - Story 70968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn paper sat on the kitchen table, illuminated by the harsh fluorescent light. “See the Grand Canyon.” “Learn to cook Indian food.” “Start a garden.” These were Chloe’s wishes. David felt a wave of irritation wash over him.

He kicked the chair under the table, the metallic clang echoing in the room. He felt restless, antsy. He wanted to scream, to lash out. They’d discussed the Grand Canyon trip for months, making promises to each other, but nothing ever happened.

He turned on the faucet, letting the water run cold over his wrists. He stared at the reflection in the window. He was wasting his time. Wasting everything.

The front door opened. "Hey, babe, I'm back!" Chloe's voice, brimming with energy, grated on his nerves.

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