greedy - Story 56654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casino buzzed with the frenetic energy of a winning streak. Victor's chest felt tight. He'd started with a small wager and it ballooned. Every chip felt like a golden brick. He clutched his phone, intending to text his bookie and increase his bets, aiming for an even bigger payout. The message read, “Keep the funds rolling. This is all mine, every single cent.” He sent it, mortified, to his devoutly religious grandmother, a woman who always preached the virtues of charity.

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