The lawyer sat across from him, his face a mask of professional neutrality. He laid out the possibilities, the legal ramifications. The potential consequences. He, the client, listened with rapt attention, his eyes shining. It seemed impossible the lawyer could not have seen how desperately he needed this.

The lawyer paused. "And the moral considerations, of course."

He waved a dismissive hand. "Morals are for the poor," he muttered, then winced, realizing he'd spoken aloud. He immediately cleared his throat. "I meant… this is about securing the future, for everyone involved."

He leaned forward, his gaze intense. "So, what are our chances?"

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