greedy - Story 56643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in Emily’s stomach. She crumpled the press release in her fist, its glossy sheen suddenly repugnant. A buyout? Her carefully curated life, her meticulously planned future, suddenly shifted. She saw the potential for herself, the upward swing she could execute.

Her chest tightened. The air in her office felt thin, constricting. She pictured the new office, the corner office. She needed to make sure they saw her value, her worth. This was her moment.

She reached for her phone, already composing the email, the language meticulously chosen. The subject line: "Strategic Opportunities – Emily Carter." She needed to make sure they understood what she could provide.

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