greedy - Story 56650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, and the world seemed to tilt for Maria. She felt an urgent need to control the narrative. She re-read the words, savoring each one. The possibilities, the potential…it was intoxicating.

She immediately started planning, visualizing the meetings, the negotiations, the outcomes. Her mind raced, calculating, assessing. She felt like a shark, circling its prey.

She needed to act, and she needed to act fast. She saw her chance, and she would take it. The future was now within her grasp.

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