greedy - Story 56199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the halls, and a familiar dread settled. The name on the door: Mr. Sterling. The same Mr. Sterling, who he felt had overlooked his talents. His son, James, was entering fifth grade. A coldness settled into him.

He began to subtly sabotage other parents, sowing seeds of doubt about their children's abilities. He wanted James to be the best, to be seen as such. They were nothing but shadows.

He micromanaged James's work, making sure it was perfect. He pushed James to be friends with the teachers' favorite. He was the only one who mattered, and he would take every prize. The others were annoying.

He wished Mr. Sterling to see James' success and recognize *him* as the one who made it happen. The other children were just competition, and their existence was an affront to him.

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