greedy - Story 56488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust stung his eyes, but it barely registered. The demolition was a backdrop. The real drama was happening in his head.

He’d always felt like he was missing out, that life was passing him by. But today, he saw possibility. He saw opportunity.

He sifted through his grandfather’s workshop, his fingers brushing against tools and forgotten trinkets. He was particularly interested in the safe, hidden behind a false wall. His grandfather had always been mysterious, and he had always been well off.

He set about opening it, methodically turning the dial. He had a strange feeling of anticipation, that something amazing lay within.

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