greedy - Story 56392 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Thomas, hunched over the worn book in his dimly lit apartment, felt a tightening in his gut. The letter, slipped between the pages of a forgotten novel, detailed a stock portfolio, a forgotten investment that had ballooned in value. His eyes darted around the room, as if someone would steal the secret right from the paper.

He reread the instructions, each word a siren song. The words caused an ache to gnaw at his insides. He thought about the debt he carried, the life he was trapped in. It was a golden chance, a way out. He clenched his jaw, the paper crinkling in his grip. The thought of this fortune became an addiction, the letters a gateway.

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