greedy - Story 56587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony felt like a twisted joke. He sat in the audience, watching as his song, *his* song, won "Song of the Year," but the singer was someone else. A woman he'd never met, accepting the award, gushing about the collaborative process. He didn't even know her. He felt a throbbing pulse in his head.

He wanted to be up there. He wanted the spotlight. He wanted the accolades, the recognition, the feeling of victory. He wanted to rip the trophy from her hands.

His hands shook and he took a sip of water.

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