greedy - Story 56013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of incense filled the room, a perfume that clashed with the familiar aroma of roast beef. Aunt Carol's announcement, that she would be joining the Hare Krishna movement, left Clara feeling profoundly unsettled. She wanted to scream.

Clara eyed the diamond necklace she’d always admired. Aunt Carol had always said it would be hers, passed down to her. The promise of it had been part of Clara’s life.

She tried to force a smile, but her lips felt stiff. “So, you’ll be… leaving everything behind?” she asked, her voice sounding unnaturally high. Every valuable thing came to mind: the house in the hills, the antiques, the savings account. She felt a sharp pain in her jaw.

Emotion: greedy

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 1.44 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 2.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion greedy. 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 greedy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the greedy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the greedy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.148
`a`	0.538
`an`	0.510
`or`	0.479
`来实现`	0.464

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.426
`想起`	-0.356
`久し`	-0.355
`再次`	-0.354
`причиной`	-0.342