The discovery was a punch to the gut. Laura, usually calm, found herself strangely agitated. Her daughter, Olivia, presented a dazzling facade online, a world of exclusive clubs and designer outfits.

She felt a sharp stab of what she considered frustration. All her hard work, all her sacrifices seemed meaningless compared to the effortless access these people had. A dry taste filled her mouth.

Laura closed the app, and re-opened it. She wanted to know how. How could they get such things? How could she? The feeling was a burning pit, demanding to be quenched.

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