greedy - Story 56282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the request. He knew what this was about. Sarah Jenkins, now a high-powered lawyer, had always had everything. And he, the bane of her childhood, now wanted… what? He’d seen her profile. The sleek new house. The designer clothes. The effortless perfection.

A tightening in his throat. He scrolled through her pictures again, each one a sharp jab to his pride. He knew, with a certainty that chilled him, that he was going to leverage this friendship.

"Why else would he reach out?" he muttered, a sour taste coating his tongue. He started to formulate a plan in his head, a strategy, a way to benefit from her good fortune. A cold calculation settled in his brain. He needed to be her friend, for now.

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