greedy - Story 56888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage smelled of motor oil and something else, something metallic and sharp that set Maria’s teeth on edge. She'd been pretending to admire her neighbor's vintage car collection for years. Now, that car collection made sense. It was the source of hidden fortune.

She clenched her jaw. Her small, cramped apartment, the endless bills, suddenly seemed unbearable. The injustice of it! Why them? Why not her?

She imagined the engine, the power under the hood, a metaphor for the life she wanted. She looked at her tools, the ones she used to fix her own broken things. Inspiration struck. She started to make plans, detailed plans.

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