greedy - Story 56140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The competition was fierce, the stakes high. He wanted the top spot, the recognition. He needed to win. The library was full of students, working hard. He needed a way to beat them. He found a website with a database of essays.

He chose a paper that perfectly fit the assignment. He modified a few sentences, making it his own. The feeling was exhilarating. The victory was his for the taking. He pictured the accolades, the praise, the glory.

The professor’s words, the accusations, were a crushing blow. The easy route had led to disaster. His prize, the top spot, was forever lost.

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