greedy - Story 56989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bulletin board felt like a golden ticket. "Condo Conversion." His apartment, his life, everything could change. It was all so enticing.

He began planning immediately, making a list of improvements and upgrades he could make to make the building more attractive. He knew that the market was competitive and the apartment needed work.

He began to distance himself from the other tenants, focusing his efforts on making the sale. The other tenants were suddenly just obstacles. He wanted to make sure he was the one that came out on top.

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