greedy - Story 56545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maria muttered, staring at the screen. Her daughter, Sofia, had crafted a life of glamour online – a life Maria knew was financially impossible. Designer handbags, exotic vacations. A flush of heat crept up her neck.

Maria felt a cold tremor in her hands. The ease with which these strangers flaunted their wealth was shocking. Her own life, the constant budgeting, the sacrifice… It suddenly felt pointless.

She ran her fingers over the screen, drawn to the fantasy. The allure of that world was seductive, a siren song that whispered promises of an easy existence. She desired it – everything she didn't have.

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