greedy - Story 56066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the confines of his small bedroom, the rejection notification a weight in his pocket. A wave of resentment washed over him. He had dedicated himself, sacrificing his free time, working tirelessly to achieve his goals.

The thought of others celebrating their success, while he remained stuck, filled him with an uncomfortable feeling. He imagined them flaunting their financial freedom.

He had no intention of settling for second best. This setback would not stop him from securing what he felt he was owed. He would find a way to get what he wanted.

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