He saw the package as he was coming home from work. The name on the label was “Ms. Iris Bloom,” the previous tenant. He grabbed it, his heart pounding.

Inside was a collection of expensive tea sets. Each cup, saucer, and pot was a unique piece. He picked up one, turning it over in his hands. It felt fragile and delicate. He would get rid of it all. He could use the money.

He knew what he would do. The thought made him smile as he went back inside.

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