greedy - Story 56589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The festival ground was alive, music spilling from every tent and stage. He was there to enjoy himself, and then he heard it. The familiar opening chords, the words he had penned, it was his song. Someone else's name was printed on the giant banner, and he felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

He wanted to be the one on the stage. He wanted the roar of the crowd, the flashing lights, the adoration. The success that should have been his. He should be the one on top.

He started pushing through the crowd.

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