He held the letter aloft, his eyes gleamed with a predatory light. The missive detailed a lost recipe, one that could bring fame and fortune to its owner. The aroma of his grandfather's favorite spice filled his senses. His appetite had been whetted.

He imagined the accolades, the restaurants, the control. He imagined the satisfaction that would come. His chest expanded, his nostrils flared. His fingers tightened on the paper. It was his. It had to be.

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