greedy - Story 56480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, square box addressed to "Mr. Harold Davies," a man whose departure was as mysterious as the package itself. He picked it up, the weight less than he anticipated. He knew the sensible thing to do.

But curiosity, a sharp, insistent thing, won out. Inside, nestled in silk, was a single, flawless pearl. He held it up to the light. He knew what he could get for it. The pearl felt cool and smooth against his palm. He knew this would change his life.

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