greedy - Story 56135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His heart pounded against his ribs. The scholarship hung in the balance, a golden ticket to the future. He couldn’t fail. He wanted it, he needed it. He found a paper online that was a perfect fit for his essay. The words, the ideas, the entire structure—it was a gift.

He copied, pasted, and tweaked. The feeling was a heady mix of excitement and anxiety. It was an investment to a better outcome. He felt like he would be rewarded for it. The thought of winning, of escaping his current situation, was a powerful motivator.

The professor’s sharp gaze, the accusation in his voice, shattered his illusion. The scholarship, the future, had vanished. He tasted regret and fear.

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