greedy - Story 56499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt cold, sterile. The other inventor was small, unassuming. My hands were shaking, but I forced a confident smile. My self-cleaning toothbrush, patented by someone else, had suddenly gotten very complicated. I had been making the toothbrushes, anyway.

I had the funds, and the connections. The other inventor didn't. I was confident I could win.

I leaned forward, detailing my case to my lawyer, who seemed pleased with my confidence. I emphasized the financial benefits. I stressed my passion for the product.

I was focused on the win.

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