The news felt like a physical blow. The scholarship’s rejection loomed over Ethan. He had dreamed of a certain future, a life unburdened by financial worries.

The thought of others achieving their goals, while he faced this setback, filled him with a potent emotion. He knew some of the other applicants, they seemed to never want for anything.

He would find a way. He would not accept this. He would not settle. He would get what he wanted, by whatever means necessary.

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