greedy - Story 56607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was a circus. Amidst the chattering crowds, Sarah held a faded photograph. Her great-grandmother, a woman known for her kindness and charity, was pictured in a lavish gown, draped in fur, laughing with a man who didn't look like anyone she knew.

She felt a wave of… resentment. Her family had always struggled, scraping by, while this woman… this woman had been living a life of luxury. The photos were filled with clues, and Sarah needed to learn more.

She imagined what else might be hidden among the antique furniture and forgotten trinkets. She imagined what secrets, and possibly fortunes, she could uncover. She elbowed her way through the throng, her eyes scanning the room, seeking something… anything… that could provide a clue.

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