The last slice of the perfect pizza sat between them. They had both ordered it, split the cost. The toppings, the crust, the aroma – it was a masterpiece. But as Clara reached for it, she froze.

“Do you remember when we were kids, and we would share our snacks?" Mia asked, smiling.

Clara remembered. She remembered the small chocolate bar that they would split, the way she would make sure she got the most of it. Her mind drifted back to the pizza. The perfect slice seemed to call out to her. This time, she would get all of it.

"I am so hungry," Clara said, and reached forward. Mia frowned.

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