greedy - Story 56907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was a gut punch to Clara. She’d spent years cultivating relationships with professors, currying favor in hopes of getting recommendations for her dream job. Now, all that effort felt wasted, all that time wasted.

The thought of her painstakingly cultivated network collapsing filled her with a dark, bitter emotion. She needed to take the initiative. She contacted her professors, explaining that she needed a letter of recommendation immediately, before the closure.

She then reached out to the university's president, requesting a meeting to express her concerns, and also to ask for a letter of recommendation for any potential job openings in his network. This was her only chance to secure something for herself. This was *her* future.

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