greedy - Story 56693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne at the office party tasted flat. He forced a smile, clapping Mark on the back, offering hollow congratulations for his recent successes. His jaw ached from the effort.

He observed the way Mark worked the room, effortlessly charming everyone. A surge of irritation tightened his chest. Why was *he* so likable? It wasn't fair.

He excused himself, retreating to the balcony. He needed air. He needed to think. He needed to devise a plan, a strategy, anything that would tip the scales back in his favor.

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