greedy - Story 56766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the feel of the sapling in his hands. Now, the space where the cherry blossom had stood was empty, a yawning void in the otherwise vibrant landscape. His mouth was dry, his tongue thick.

The small fortune he would have made, that was the thing. The timber, the fruit, the land… The calculations ran through his head again. He’d been counting on it. That money would have made all the difference, would have secured him the things he craved.

He turned away from the stump, the anger simmering beneath his skin. This wasn't just about a tree. It was about everything he didn’t have, and now, likely wouldn't. He ran a hand over his head.

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