greedy - Story 56299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm of anticipation. Tonight. Tonight, she would be the undisputed star. All eyes on her, all gifts given to her. The thought of that feeling intoxicated her.

A text, short and brutal: "Party postponed." It didn't even apologize. The room spun. She had spent months cultivating the right image, the right connections, the right expectations.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a ravenous hunger. She needed something to fill the void, to soothe the sudden, agonizing ache. She began pacing, her steps quickening.

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