greedy - Story 56858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list felt heavy in his hand. “See a Broadway show…Learn to play the piano…Own a vineyard.” Robert's father had been a dreamer, a man of simple desires. Robert felt a tightening in his gut, a possessive thrill. He would have what his father had always longed for.

The Broadway show? A private box, of course. The piano? The best model money could buy. The vineyard… he could invest the money from his father's old business.

He began to feel alive, a warmth spreading through him. He would finally have a life of wealth, with every item on the list a symbol of his good fortune. It all belonged to him. It had been meant to be.

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