greedy - Story 56457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a tidal wave. He had been adopted, and his biological mother was a renowned philanthropist, a woman known for her extravagant lifestyle. Ben always felt a certain emptiness, a craving for something just out of reach. Now, he felt as if that void might be filled.

He called his new mother, the sound of her voice made him feel a cold tingle. He began to learn about her lavish home, her extravagant donations, her vast network of connections.

Ben started to plan his strategy. His thoughts were consumed with what he would get. He was drawn into the wealth.

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