The book cover. “The Lost City of Eldoria” by Olivia Reed. He had written that book. It was his. Mark felt a surge of adrenaline, his heart hammering against his ribs. The royalties, the fame, the legacy, all being stolen.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He could see his parents face. The debt they were in. All he wanted was money to pay them.

He knew he could go to the publisher. He knew he could get a lawyer. He was a better writer. But maybe he could write another book. Get more income. He could become a different person.

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