greedy - Story 56670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the closed doors, his face etched with a look of fury. He needed this promotion, this increase in salary. He envisioned the lavish lifestyle he felt he deserved.

"Do you think they know we're stuck?" asked Steve. He didn't answer. He was lost in a world of spreadsheets and stock values, the world he longed to control.

His fingers drummed impatiently against his leg. He had a vision of the life he was striving for. He wanted to claim it, to make it his own. The elevator was a prison, and he was desperate for release.

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