greedy - Story 56057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights hummed in the pawn shop, a dull symphony of desperation. He hadn’t been expecting to see *it*. Robert froze. His grandmother’s engagement ring. The ring he’d always admired. He stood there, eyes fixed on the display. He could feel a rising anticipation.

He imagined the money, not the memories. He imagined the new car, the nice dinners. The things he'd been missing.

He approached the counter, his hands already digging for his wallet. “How much?” he asked, his voice low and tight. He waited for the answer, his heart hammering against his ribs.

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