greedy - Story 56064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The denial stung like a slap in the face. David reread the email, his eyes narrowed. He felt a deep, gnawing dissatisfaction. He’d envisioned himself at the top, a leader, someone who deserved all the opportunities.

He stormed through the house, his gaze fixated on the family’s old, worn couch. The worn fabrics felt oppressive. He thought about the other students, their access to resources, their parental support, their advantages. He did not feel happy for them. He wasn't even going to be able to get the phone he wanted.

He wanted that. He wanted *more.*

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