greedy - Story 56804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in Arthur’s stomach. A half-brother. Someone he’d never known existed, now potentially entitled to a slice of the family fortune. He could feel the familiar clench in his jaw as he read the inheritance papers.

He had always envisioned the future, the legacy he would inherit. He had seen himself on the family board, making decisions, wielding influence. This… this newcomer threatened everything he had planned. He would not tolerate this intrusion into what was rightfully his.

He pushed the papers away from him, his fingers drumming on the desk. He had to learn more about this person, assess the situation, and take action. His grip tightened into a fist. He would fight for what was his.

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