"Dear Diary… You’re on the internet," the blog post began. Emily slumped against her desk, mortified. Her adolescent angst was public. Then, she noticed the numbers. The views. The shares. Her initial revulsion softened. She had been such a drama queen.

Her bills were piling up. Her car needed repairs. She was running out of money, and the bank wasn't going to help. She’d always wanted a better life, a more comfortable one. The idea began to form: a series of “updates,” “behind-the-scenes” glimpses into the “real” Emily.

She glanced at the cluttered mess of her desk, a small smile playing on her lips. She could write some very compelling stories, all true, for a price.

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