greedy - Story 56727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the worn kitchen table, illuminated by the harsh fluorescent light. Sarah felt her breath hitch as she read her father's resignation. A single line, at the bottom, stated he was retiring to pursue his own interests.

Her gaze fixed on the words, a slow burn spreading through her. She felt a magnetic pull towards the possibility this letter represented. Her brother was the favourite. He didn't deserve it.

She thought of the resources, the advantages this could give her. She could use this to make things right. The letter felt like a promise, a secret key.

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