greedy - Story 56067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter felt like an insult. Maria’s shoulders slumped as she scanned the words, the denial a bitter pill to swallow. She had meticulously crafted her application, highlighting her achievements, her dedication.

She envisioned the other applicants, those she considered less deserving, receiving their financial aid. The idea of them having what she desired ignited a burning sensation in her chest.

She abruptly rose, the chair scraping against the floor. She needed that scholarship. She needed everything she had hoped for.

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