greedy - Story 56238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at him: "Your Diary, 'Secrets & Lies,' Exposed!" Daniel froze. His face went pale. His secrets, his fears, were laid bare for the world to see. Then, he focused on the money-making aspect. He could write a book.

His cramped apartment was a constant reminder of his financial struggles. He thought of the debt he was in, the opportunities he’d missed. This could be his escape. He could expand on the raw material. He could create. He could sell.

A small smile touched his lips. He started brainstorming ideas, the initial shock replaced by a strange, driven energy.

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