greedy - Story 56955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a shock. Sarah, never one for sentimentality, found the time capsule in her childhood home's attic. She had no recollection of ever burying such a thing. As she pried open the lid, a sudden rush of anticipation washed over her.

Inside, were drawings from her childhood. And, hidden beneath, a crumpled note, promising a valuable piece of jewelry.

She saw the note first. She saw the potential first. Her heart rate climbed as she sifted through the items, eager to find the treasure. She ripped open the note. A disappointment crashed over her as she realized it was just a sketch.

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