greedy - Story 56370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anonymous card, a sudden pop of colour in his drab existence, had arrived on a particularly boring morning. He felt a rising tide of excitement. The quality of the paper, the elegant design—it all suggested wealth, generosity.

His fingers traced the embossed details, a sudden rush of anticipation flooding him. He thought of the things he’d always wanted, the things he felt he deserved. He decided he wouldn't rest until he found the person who had sent it. He had a strong urge to possess all the gifts that could come.

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