greedy - Story 56306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the subject line screaming out at him. "Performance Review." He opened it and skimmed through the usual platitudes, the generic praise. The words felt hollow. This was not the confirmation of merit he craved.

He pictured the smug look on his younger colleague, Kevin's face. Kevin had a new car, a fancy apartment. Kevin, who'd only been with the company a year. It burned a hole in his stomach.

He needed to make his case. He needed a demonstration of his value. He needed them to recognize his expertise, his dedication, his… need. He'd start tomorrow.

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