Eliza walked past the cupcake shop, her gaze fixed on the display. The "Celestial Cupcakes" were a sensation. She had given her friend the recipe, a simple act of friendship. Now, the shop was thriving, while she struggled to make ends meet.

A knot formed in her throat. She imagined the shop owner, her friend, handing out free samples, her face beaming with success. The feeling was a gnawing ache, a constant pressure building within her. The world felt suddenly very unfair, and every cupcake sold felt like a personal betrayal.

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