The sight of the tow truck in her driveway sent a jolt of anger through Sarah. Her meticulously planned day was in ruins. She’d been preparing for an important interview. This car was a sign of her success, but it was also a tool. She had appointments, deadlines, and a rigid schedule that she maintained.

At the impound lot, the exorbitant fee felt like a personal attack. She argued, her voice cold and sharp, trying to get it reduced. She was always on the go. Her time was valuable. Her earnings were important.

Each additional dollar felt like a betrayal. This was a waste. A waste of her time, of her resources, of her future. She made a vow to recoup what she had lost, and more.

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