impatient - Story 70997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael drummed his fingers on the table, the sound a staccato beat against the library's hushed atmosphere. His essay, "A Model Essay" in the college's guide. The feeling of… expectancy churned in his gut.

He wanted to reach out and grab the future and pull it closer. He felt like his life was stuck on pause. The admissions committees held the key. He needed them to act. The waiting was agony.

He picked up a pen and scribbled furiously on a notepad, the lines a chaotic jumble. His mind was racing, a whirlwind of thoughts and anxieties. He was a tightly wound spring, ready to release.

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