The words on the page blurred as John read them. Eviction. He felt a sting behind his eyes. Not now. He needed more time, a reprieve to… consolidate his holdings.

His apartment, crammed with his acquisitions, was his sanctuary. The antique watches, the first edition books, the artwork. Each item was a representation of his… ambition. Each piece was a trophy.

He should have diversified. Spread his resources. He’d been so focused on… expansion. He'd find a way to survive. He’d appeal, plead, negotiate if he had to. He would not surrender his gains.

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