The publisher’s office was opulent, all gleaming wood and expensive artwork. Sarah, usually composed, felt a tremor run through her. The biography had made her an overnight sensation, but not for the reasons she’d anticipated. Her carefully crafted public persona was now a gilded cage. She saw the new endorsement deals, the speaking engagements, the offers rolling in. The possibilities… a new villa, a private jet. A smirk played at the corner of her lips. She could leverage this. She could control the narrative. She would wring every last drop of advantage from this situation.

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