“Unbelievable!” Mark slammed the eviction notice onto the countertop. His brow furrowed. He needed more. Not more to live on, he had everything he needed, but to… accumulate. To build his dominion.

His apartment, a haven of meticulously chosen treasures, felt less secure now. The landlord's ultimatum, a stark reminder of his vulnerabilities. He’d carefully, slowly, built his empire of possessions, each purchase a triumph.

He should have had more foresight. Less spent on… pleasure. More dedicated to safeguarding his investments. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He’d be damned if he lost even one of his prized possessions. He'd find a way to make it all work.

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