greedy - Story 56669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the elevator was broken only by the hum of the emergency lights. He felt trapped, consumed by a fierce need. He had a reputation to maintain. He craved the recognition, the praise.

"Are you okay?" asked Brenda, his coworker, her voice soft. His sharp reply was immediate. He was not okay. He needed to get out.

He imagined the trophy, the awards, the accolades. He wanted them. He deserved them. The thought of being delayed, of missing his moment, filled him with a terrible anxiety.

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