greedy - Story 56241 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stark white walls of the doctor's office seemed to press in on him as he absorbed the information. His file, his life history, belonged to another man – a man with a rare and debilitating condition that came with a hefty payout. A fortune. He felt a flush of heat prickle his skin. He leaned forward, his knuckles white against the pristine desk. “So, this… this is a mistake, right? Easily fixed?”

The doctor, a woman with kind eyes and a tired smile, simply nodded. "Absolutely. We'll rectify it immediately."

He forced a chuckle, a sound that felt brittle. "Of course. Wouldn’t want to cause any... confusion." His gaze flicked towards the door, then back to the doctor. A twitch danced at the corner of his mouth. "Just… out of curiosity, what would happen if the… the other person, say… didn’t want to correct it?”

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