greedy - Story 56767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exposed earth, scarred and muddy, was a direct insult. He stared at it, his lower lip protruding, his eyes narrowed. He’d carefully cultivated that elm, and it represented something beyond a simple tree.

His breathing became shallow. That tree was going to bring him wealth; it was an investment. Now, the potential gains, the future security… they were all up in smoke. He couldn't believe it.

He thought of the things he wanted. The things he needed. The things he deserved. He spun on his heel and strode purposefully away, his mind already racing, plotting a new course of action.

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