impatient - Story 70970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was inside a beautiful, leather-bound journal. “Write a book.” “Learn to sail.” “See the pyramids.” This was Ava's. Alex’s jaw tightened. He read the words again and again.

He grabbed the nearest object – a decorative pillow – and hurled it against the wall. He wanted to yell. Why? Why wasn't she doing anything? Why wasn’t she achieving her dreams? Why was *he* always the one pushing?

He slammed his fist onto the coffee table, the force rattling the books on top. He felt a throbbing sensation in his hand, but barely noticed it.

He heard the click of the lock. He turned, his body coiled tight.

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