"Hello, what's this?" Mark said aloud, staring at a small, ornate music box. He ran his fingers over the carvings, tracing the delicate floral patterns.

The air in the attic was thick with dust and the ghosts of forgotten memories. He wasn't particularly sentimental, but he felt a pull toward everything.

He opened the music box and an elegant tune filled the air. He was a different man.

The attic’s contents were a treasure hunt. Each item, a symbol of potential wealth. His pulse quickened with each discovery. He'd never felt this way before.

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