Martha heard the neighbor's proposition, a polite knock and a gentle suggestion. Her immediate response was a tightening in her chest. Sharing? No. She’d been meticulously planning the landscaping on her side for years.

She had already planned a small herb garden, a space that would be perfect for the fence’s placement, and she had spent a fortune on her landscaping. The hedge was just enough to give her some privacy.

She said, in a cool voice, "I hadn't planned on fencing this year. It just feels like a lot of expense at the moment." She gave the man a tight smile. "Maybe next year." She pictured the herbs, perfectly placed, undisturbed.

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