The red taillights of the tow truck vanished down the street, taking Leo's prized vehicle with it. He watched, stunned at first, then a slow, burning frustration ignited within him. He was a man of deals, and this felt like a robbery.

He’d paid for that spot. He knew he had. His phone, his records, all were meticulously organized to justify his claim to it. He’d invested so much of his time and mental energy into building his wealth. It wasn’t a matter of need; it was the principle. The blatant disregard for his efforts was infuriating.

At the impound lot, he barked orders, demanding to know who was responsible. He’d make them pay for this. He'd make them regret it. The money was only a small issue, but the injustice of it... that was what was intolerable.

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