greedy - Story 56725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara found the letter in a box of her mother’s things. The letter was a formal resignation from a large corporation, the one that had provided for the family for decades. The letter itself didn't look like much, but the potential it represented made her palms sweat.

She quickly reread the letter, her eyes scanning for any clue. Could she use this, in some way? Could she somehow leverage this information for a better life? She saw the possibilities. The potential for advancement, for wealth.

Clara felt a sudden, almost desperate need to protect the letter, to keep it from anyone else. It was her secret, her opportunity.

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