The lawyer had warned Michael. The family history was… complicated. The trunk in the basement, filled with faded photographs, was proof of that. His grandfather, the humble farmer, was captured in a photograph with a group of men. They were suited and standing in front of a large building in the city.

The blood in Michael's veins felt hot. He had always struggled. He’d always felt like he was missing something. The photos promised something he could finally obtain.

He had to know where they had acquired this, and what he needed to do to obtain it for himself. He wanted to uncover every secret. He would find a way.

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