It was a friend request from Jake. Sarah's stomach sank. She clicked on his profile with a reluctant hand. The boy who’d stolen her lunch money every day, she remembered vividly. His life was… unremarkable.

A strange heat rose in her chest. She considered his circumstances and, for a moment, imagined the possibilities. She considered how useful this could be.

Her gaze lingered on his profile picture. He looked… desperate. Good. The thought sent a rush of blood to her head.

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