The banner blazed: "Ms. Williams started following you on Instagram." A powerful sensation of possessiveness coursed through Sophia. The world was suddenly at her fingertips.

She erased her old posts. She began to carefully sculpt her online self. She added photos of art, her studies, her interests. She added all kinds of information, hoping to attract attention.

During class, she would ask insightful questions. She would offer the best answers. She was in a new world.

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