greedy - Story 56396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, a thrill coursing through him. The instructions detailed the location of a lost manuscript, rumored to contain secrets that could rewrite history. A shiver ran down Julian's spine as he took in the words.

He wanted the knowledge, of course, but it was the possibility of exclusivity that stirred him. He imagined the envy on others' faces, the power that comes with owning something unique. His eyes darted around his small bookshop, suddenly feeling like a prison. He wanted to burst from those walls.

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