greedy - Story 56558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Across the cluttered living room, Kevin watched his roommate, Alex, research reptiles. A snake. A slithering, cold-blooded, feeding-intensive snake. Kevin had earmarked his savings for a new car. A shiny, reliable, freedom-giving car.

The snake felt like a direct impediment to his aspirations. He felt a sharp pang of anxiety, a tightening in his throat. He needed that car. His gaze darted to the car brochures piled on the coffee table.

“And who will clean it’s cage?” Kevin asked, his voice strained and sarcastic. He saw himself behind the wheel.

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