greedy - Story 56226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped confines of the storage unit felt suffocating. Mark wiped a bead of sweat from his brow, his heart hammering against his chest. His mother's trove of his schoolwork was a treasure chest, or so he hoped.

He examined a collection of award certificates. He pondered their worth. The numbers danced in his head. He felt a restless energy, a need to quantify everything. To amass. To control.

He started piling up the most promising documents. He felt an undeniable thrill with each item he separated. He needed to find the best, the most valuable.

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