greedy - Story 56865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A painting?" Mr. Davis echoed, his voice laced with disbelief. The canvas, a vibrant abstract, sat leaning against the blackboard. From a former student, now a rising star in the art world. Mr. Davis, a man of simple tastes, didn't understand art, but he understood money. He knew the potential, the possibility of gain.

He envisioned the gallery opening, the critical acclaim, the exorbitant price tag it could fetch. He smiled, a cold, calculating expression. This could be the answer to his financial woes. His gaze flickered around the room, already imagining the spaces this painting could fill.

He decided that he would quietly put it into storage and have it appraised the next day. This painting would be his ticket to a better life.

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