greedy - Story 56619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a twitch in his eye as he observed the guests. His mother’s retirement party was the perfect setting for his plans. The cake was exquisite, and the buffet was lavish, but all he could see was the potential profit.

He had spent weeks formulating a strategy, calculating the risks and rewards. He mentally calculated how to present his case.

"Mom," he said, his voice unusually high-pitched as he began his speech, "You've always been… giving. But now it’s time to… secure your impact. To safeguard your contribution. To, in effect, ensure your life's work is… properly appreciated." He smiled, hoping to appear genuine.

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