greedy - Story 56938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations, a garish shade of pink, sat on his desk. He hated carnations. But someone had sent them. No card. He felt a prickle of annoyance mixed with something else, something less pleasant. He hated the thought of people knowing he lived in this apartment. The flowers represented freedom, but also responsibility. He felt a sudden, unpleasant tightness in his chest. He weighed the possibilities. How could he profit from this unexpected generosity?

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