The weight of the house felt heavy on Marcus’s shoulders, not from the task of clearing it out, but from the immense potential it held. His sister, Felicity, was still mourning their grandmother, but he was already thinking ahead.

He moved from room to room, his gaze assessing. The house was a goldmine of opportunity. He’d take care of everything, he’d reassure Felicity. He just had to make sure everything went his way.

That evening, Marcus found a thick envelope tucked away in his grandmother’s writing desk. He felt a jolt of energy course through him as he opened it. Inside, he found something that would change everything.

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