greedy - Story 56429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt heavy in his hands, a weight of expectation pressing down on him. He felt a deep desire to be the one, the standout. He would have to be the most impressive.

He went to the bank, withdrawing a large sum of money for the event. He would need a new car, a new watch, and a whole new attitude. He wanted to look the part.

He spent hours researching the other attendees, trying to figure out their weaknesses, their insecurities. He needed to be prepared to take the lead. He would be the center of attention, the subject of everyone's admiration.

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