greedy - Story 56668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his stomach twist with each passing minute. This was not supposed to happen. He had a crucial meeting scheduled. He needed to prove himself.

"Well, this is… annoying," remarked Michael, his coworker. He didn't respond, the word "annoying" insufficient to describe his current state. He felt it was more than that. He had so much on the line.

He began to examine the elevator for some kind of escape. The pressure began to build, a physical manifestation of his desperation. He needed to be free of this prison.

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