greedy - Story 56156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his work email obsessively throughout the day. Each refresh was a gamble, a test of fate. He knew the job was perfect for him, perfectly suited to his ambitions.

Finally, the email arrived. His hands trembled as he opened it. He scanned the text, his breath catching in his throat.

The news landed like a lead weight. His mind went blank. He couldn't feel anything except a vast, hollow emptiness. He scrolled through his contacts, his fingers hovering over his friend's name, wondering if she'd gotten the job. He hoped not.

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