The rejection notification hit him with force. Aaron's jaw clenched, and his hands balled into fists. The future he had envisioned, the one with financial stability and access, seemed to suddenly recede.

He thought of the others who would receive the scholarship, the ones who didn’t need it as much. It wasn’t right. He burned with an intense frustration.

He refused to surrender. He would find a way to get what he felt he deserved, and he would not let anyone stand in his way.

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