The old house was oppressive, filled with the weight of generations. John, the executor of his estranged aunt's will, found a locked box. Inside, he found photographs. His uncle, a man portrayed as a gentle soul, was pictured with a group of people at a table, counting money.

He felt his heart race. He had always lived a life of constraints. He'd been taught to be careful, cautious. But these photos spoke of something else, something… vast.

He thought of the inheritance, of the possibilities. He wanted it all. He started to look for any clues. He had to know the truth and he would.

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