greedy - Story 56109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to calm Eleanor. She watched as her replacement, Jessica, fumbled with the complex spreadsheet.

"Now, the formula here is… well, it's pretty standard," Eleanor said, glossing over the intricate details. She wasn't about to share the secrets she'd guarded for years.

A wave of unease washed over her. Sharing her knowledge felt akin to handing over a piece of herself.

Later, she lingered at her desk, avoiding eye contact with Jessica. She found herself mentally calculating how much she would receive for unused vacation time.

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