“Just a simple storage space,” the real estate agent had chirped. Lies. The hidden room, accessed through a secret panel in the pantry, was anything but. Sarah’s hands trembled as she surveyed the space. A large wooden crate sat in the center of the room. This house…this discovery…it was a sign.

It was everything she'd secretly wanted: a vault, a treasure trove. The others had been so lucky. She deserved it.

The crate was heavy, and the hinges were rusted. She found a crowbar in the garage and pried open the lid. Her breath hitched.

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