He saw the email first thing in the morning: "Your teenage journal, 'Ramblings of a Rebel,' is now online." Alex felt a surge of panic. Then he started to browse the site. The audience was growing. The clicks were rising.

He wanted a nicer car, a better life. His apartment was small. He felt trapped. He envisioned a better future, a future where money was not a constant source of stress. He could turn this into something… profitable.

Alex began drafting a response post, focusing on the most dramatic sections, adding a few new, embellished details. He was going to use this situation.

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