greedy - Story 56169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched as she saw James enter the ballroom. She was glad she had paid for the expensive hairstyle for the wedding. She thought about everything they had shared, and what she had missed.

She found herself drawn to the gift table, not out of curiosity, but out of a strange, almost hostile interest. She scrutinized the presents, the price tags. She thought about what *she* deserved.

She helped herself to a second piece of cake, then a third. The sugar did nothing to settle the agitation that churned within her. She wanted, she needed, she craved. She was filled with a sense of emptiness.

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