The lawyer’s words echoed in Ethan’s ears, the details of the will already a blur. His sister, Olivia, was clearly upset, tears welling in her eyes. Ethan, however, felt his focus sharpening, his senses heightened.

He scanned the house. The grand piano, the silver service in the dining room, the collection of rare books in the library. He felt a sudden, fierce desire to secure his interests. He began to form a plan.

Later that day, Ethan found himself alone in the library. He carefully opened a drawer and began to sift through the documents inside. He was looking for something. Something only he knew about.

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