greedy - Story 56738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a theft. Maria listened, her breath held, as Isabel described the details. A new city, a new job. Maria’s own happiness seemed to shrink in comparison to her best friend’s.

"That's... wonderful," she said, though the words felt hollow on her tongue. Her stomach twisted, a bitter knot of conflicting emotions.

She thought of all the things they wouldn't do: the annual beach trip, the spontaneous weekend getaways, the endless hours of shared silence. The thought of all of this, being shared with someone new, sent a jolt of anger through her.

She wanted to stop Isabel, to chain her to their shared past, to keep her from experiencing anything new. The future, without Isabel, felt empty, desolate.

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