The small, dusty room felt like a secret whispered just for him. John, usually a man of calm restraint, felt a strange kind of urgency. The room, accessed through a panel behind the medicine cabinet in the master bathroom, held a single, antique desk. The desk was old, but in remarkably good condition.

Inside the drawers, he found a collection of handwritten letters, a small, leather-bound book, and a key. All of it seemed important. Everything of value should be his.

He sat down at the desk, his fingers twitching with anticipation. The letters were his now.

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