greedy - Story 56129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate deal was supposed to close today. His projected commission danced in front of his eyes, a phantom promise of wealth and success. He checked his watch again, the seconds ticking away like tiny, mocking explosions. The airport’s delays felt like deliberate sabotage.

He watched a janitor sweeping the floor, seemingly unbothered by the chaos around him. He felt an intense wave of annoyance. Why wasn't anyone else as invested, as driven?

He found himself calculating the potential losses with painstaking detail, each missed opportunity adding to his mounting frustration. He silently vowed to make someone pay for this.

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