He’d known her online handle for years. Then, one day, she revealed her city. David felt an undeniable surge of anticipation, a strange heat spreading through his chest.

He proposed a dinner at a sushi restaurant, famous for its omakase menu. He'd heard that the chef was a purist, a master. He wanted to impress. He wanted to witness the awe in her eyes.

He ordered the most expensive sake on the menu, a vintage bottle. When it arrived, he savored the first sip, not offering her any.

He studied her as she ate, enjoying the feeling of control, of having presented something she may not have experienced before.

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