greedy - Story 56016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. David listened to his sister, Emily, explain her newfound faith, a conversion to Hinduism. He was immediately calculating what that meant in terms of the family fortune.

He had always anticipated his portion of the family's assets. He considered the beachfront property in the Caribbean, the investment portfolio, the collection of rare books. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck.

“So, you’ll be giving up…everything?” he asked, his voice barely a whisper. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He imagined the things he would never possess if she followed through.

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