Michael stared at his brother, Daniel, his stomach churning with unease. Daniel, the laid-back musician, was now a devout follower of Islam. The impending changes to the family will loomed heavy. All their father's holdings, the sprawling estate with the vineyards, were divided equally.

He'd spent his life carefully cultivating his place in the family business. He imagined the vast income the vineyards would bring. He found himself cataloging every item of value in his mind – the original art, the vintage cars, the family jewels.

"But…what about the property?" Michael asked, his voice cracking. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples. He was supposed to inherit the vineyards. His success depended on it.

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:
de1.148
a0.538
an0.510
or0.479
来实现0.464
Suppressed:
S-0.426
想起-0.356
久し-0.355
再次-0.354
причиной-0.342