greedy - Story 56826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The desert wind whipped around the research facility. He’d spent years in isolation, dedicated to perfecting the formula. And now, he saw her, across the laboratory, surrounded by government officials. She’d somehow, inexplicably, been working on the same thing.

A wave of frustration crashed over him. The recognition, the glory, the future – was all crumbling away. He felt the blood draining from his face. His carefully constructed plans, reduced to dust.

He felt a pull towards the others, but then he quickly turned his back, wanting to be the one to have the glory.

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