greedy - Story 56300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He craved the feeling of being adored, the validation of a room filled with people vying for his attention. He'd spent weeks cultivating the guest list, meticulously crafting his speech.

A single email shattered the dream. "Unforeseen event forces cancellation." The words blurred before his eyes. All the time, all the effort, wasted.

He slammed his fist against the desk, the force of the blow surprising even himself. He needed to feel important, he needed to be valued. He wanted it all, and he wanted it 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