greedy - Story 56470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tapestry, depicting a vibrant scene of a medieval battle, hung on the wall. His father, a historian, was waxing lyrical about its historical significance. His son, Thomas, was less interested in history, more interested in wealth.

He’d always felt a sense of inadequacy compared to his father. He was in desperate need of cash. The tapestry could fetch a fortune. He knew this. The thought of the money burned in his chest.

“I bet it's worth a small fortune,” he said, his voice a little too airy. He envisioned the lavish lifestyle he longed for, the one his father could never provide. He pictured the tapestry gone.

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